CHICAGO, Dec. 17 (UPI) — A Chicago couple decorated their home with a giant letter to Santa from a fictional boy named Bobby who shared a message about compassion.
Edgewater residents Caro D’Offay and Laura Gilmore, who are both artists, said they started sharing giant letters between Santa and “Bobby” in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 10 days before Christmas in 2012.
The previous installments bore messages about bullying and compassion, and the latest letter — which measures 12 feet tall, resembles a giant sheet of notebook paper and is accompanied by a giant pencil, a giant plate of cookies and a giant glass of milk — features Bobby thanking Santa for bringing him a book called “Captain Compassion.”
The giant letter reads:
“Dear Santa,
Thanks for the Captain Compassion book! Mom and I reed it every night. The best is how he turns mad feelings into super powers out of his chest to help other people even the bad guys! Captain says that when hes angry its really hes sad.
When I think about dad i get sad but i don’t want to forget him. I think I understand what Captain means to hold somebody in your heart. Its not like holding something in yor hands its like when I saw a butterfly in class and we let him out into the sky. I felt happy waching him fly away even thow my friend was gone from the jar.
Do you think Captains heart lazers are like catterpillars changing into butterflies in his heart? Mabey i can have powers like Captain Compashion and change my feelings into heart lazers to and help people feel happy. im gonna try.
Love Bobby
P.S mom made you some cookies and a glass of milk also. I helped lick the bowl.”
D’Offay said the children in her neighborhood helped inspire the Bobby character.
“I feel like a problem in society is that we don’t give a lot of boys the ability to feel safe to cry, to feel safe to express their emotions — and a lot of them turn out to be bullies because they don’t know how to act inwardly,” D’Offay told DNAinfo. “I feel like there would be a lot less anger in the world if we taught boys to be more sensitive.”
She said feedback from visitors has been overwhelmingly positive.
“So far everyone… they come, they read it, their eyes glisten and they turn around and say, ‘Thank you so much, you have moved me. I feel such a kindness,’” D’Offay said. “That’s the theme we keep getting is that people walk away feeling kindness in their heart, and that’s what we’re trying to do.”
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