Fan Mail
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 14th, 2010
Recently, I received a short note. This is just a moment here to say, I read and do appreciate all such mail. Thanks to everyone that writes!
This young person (hey, she’s still young to me) sent this along:
I wrote you a letter about becoming a cryptozoologist when I was 16 years old, and when you wrote back, it just about made my year
I’m 25 now and am still a big fan of yours. Thanks for all of the great work you’ve done!
The woman who penned this already graduated with degrees in Psychology and Biology (above is one of her study subjects that she photographed being held by an assistant).
She is now in a doctoral program, and on track to obtain her PhD in Animal Behavior in 2012.
Communiques like the above do pile up to make my 50th anniversary in the field quite a happy one, and give me a feeling that I’m doing something right.
Appreciations!
That is quite an uplifting anecdote
Good show, Loren…
I like your comment about something right!
She seems to be following her dream….AWESOME!!!!
That is a great story, Loren, and I hope you take some justifiable pride in knowing that your positive impact on a young person in the past has borne such excellent fruit in the present. That’s a lovely shot of the Common Yellowthroat, BTW – one of my favorite local birds (we have them in our part of California).