The days are slipping thru like dry sand between fingers. Its been a while since I picked up my pen for you. I feel like I`m falling down from the wings of time. It all goes so fast. And yet, I have no track of the hours passing. Great things are happening!! A good friend with a big heart has begun to translate my blogletter from Norwegian to English. Imagine! Finally! Now you can read my letter elsewhere ... than in my head. And!! The great lady of Sony Music said that she would send my translated letters to someone who would be even closer to you - than her ...And ! I've got a name for a guy in Live Nation Norway, which I also already have pushed a bit. Maybe he can help. I hope:)
Tonight I`ve searched high and low, and I have put my light on every spot I can find that keeps even a small possibility of reaching you. My thought fell on the New York Times. Imagine getting our question ( will you come?) in a paper that reach thousands! One of them ….. must be you??? I think NOW we are talking! It can`t be more impossible to get the NY Times to write about our project, than to get you here ... so there was really no reason ... to hesitate … at all. Now I have been vacuuming their webpage for mail addresses. I found many, and sent the whole bunch this little mail:
Hi!
I write to you Americans in one of the biggest paper I know about “ over there”, to see if you can help me to make people in Norway start dreaming big. And not only dream big. Think big! And find courage to BELIVE that each and every one of us has the opportunity to make a huge change in the world. Not only by dreaming, believing and thinking. But by acting. If there is anything you Americans are good at… its that. You tell us this all the time, by your music, by your films, by your books, and… by your actions. And I think we have something to learn over here about that.
40 kids (youths) in age 13-17 in a small country town in Nordby in Norway, want to give their country a wakeup call. Of the good kind! We have a project with a mission – to make Bruce Springsteen enter our stage and play a couple of songs on his guitar. It`s an impossible thought. But it is an possible action. It’s a very long story, and it has been on the road for 10 years. Now it has become a blog –that’s called: Dear Mr. Springsteen. It has readers all over the world, and just recently it was translated in to English (I got some help with that, my written language as you can see, is not so good in other ways than… Norwegian. But this is not about being perfect. It`s about doing the right thing)
Here in Norway the local papers tells our story. But Bruce don`t read them. But I think he might read your paper. And if you Ny-times-people like our story.. maybe you will write about it. Maybe Bruce will find out. Maybe he will look us up.. And maybe.. he likes the story as well, and then… enter our stage 22.july 2012 (He is in Norway that day). Because he is a dreamer. Because he believes in the same things as we do, that anything is possible if you go by heart- and we all pull the strings together. It`s a small worldJ
Ok – I give you the link to the blog. Start with 0, it’s the letter that lead to the blogging. And … then read the blog. Number by number. There are 12 chapters in Norwegian, but only 5 in English. It`s because it takes some time to translate it. But we are working on it!! http://dear-mrspringsteen-english.blogspot.com/2012/02/0-very-first-letter-beginning-before.html
We have written a song about Bruce that we sing when the community comes together. It`s in Norwegian but one verse is in English. And that one goes like this:
He brings his guitar and he will sing his song
To the people of Nordby he will stand strong
Mr Springsteen`s the name and he`ll meet us at home.
And I know and you know that magic is near
when those who belive find their dreams flying there
In the steps we are taking
In the walls that we climb
In the songs of the people
that colors the sky
Links to Norwegian papers:
http://www.oblad.no/%C3%A5s/skal-lokke-springsteen-til-breivoll-1.6503241
http://www.oblad.no/underholdning/kanskje-kommer-springsteen-1.6762191
I do not expect you to respond. But I guess it was worth a try. Wish you all a very nice day!
Yours Sincerely
Rikke Soligard 40 years old and quite happy
Nordby, Norway - Across the sea
Their answer reached me in no time:
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Yepp! That’s it. Let's hope this is a turning corner. That’s all for now. I just wanted to give you a quick update. Don’t even think I’ve forgotten all about you. I put my pen at rest and wrap my mind further into the backyards of the night, looking for new horizons. It`s there to see. If you just bring your eyes to sight. I promise to write more soon. You see – the best .. still remains. Maybe …we'll meet in the pages of NY Times tomorrow.
Good night Bruce.
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