A Letter To Alison Krauss

[Dad’s Note: Bridger is still recovering following his surgery, and is currently (and for the foreseeable future) sleeping- no doubt with visions of dinosaurs dancing in his head. We’ll let him sleep tonight. For tonight’s entry I will post a short letter Bridger wrote to bluegrass artist Alison Krauss last year.

Bridger was 3, and we had just arrived home from an Alison Krauss concert in Park City, and he wanted to write her a letter. Bridger has loved Alison’s voice since he was a baby, and this was his second time seeing her in concert. We happened to get front row seats for this concert and Bridger’s singing and dancing caught Alison’s eye several times during the performance, much to his delight. The following is the text of his letter as dictated on 8/2/05.]

This is for Alson Kauss. I love to see you, Alson Kauss. You are a good guy. Do you like dinosaurs? I’m thinking about dinosaurs right now. I think I want to ask you to go to Dinosaur Park with me. I bet you’ve never seen it before and I think you would love it. There are jungles and trails and dinosaurs that you can see and dinosaur eggs. There is even real dinosaurs there. A real triceratops and her baby and she is fighting with a baby t-rex. And maybe when we go there you can sing me special songs like you did tonight in the mountains. I even drawed a picture for you. I love you.

Love,
Bridger

[We never sent the letter because we figured it would never find its way to her. Perhaps we should anyway.]