“Chickensoup” rewards
We LOVE to hear from our visitors and supporters!
To us your words are the encouragement and incentive to strive harder towards our goal of beating extinction at the finish line.
Here’s another short excerpt of a recent letter received that we’d like to share:
If a picture tells a thousand words then those taken by your many visitors must fill entire storybooks already.
It’s so incredibly peaceful that it is dangerously easy to forget why “Iris’ Ark” was brought to life in the first place, but it is such a great encouragement to see that the majority of your visitors understand that these amazing creatures live there for so much more a reason than mere entertainment.
Thank you for allowing me to visit the Conservancy and Orphanage. I will treasure those days with Jane and “the guys” forever.
(signed) LILLY
And here is another letter:
I wanted to express my gratitude for Iris Hunt’s story about Mary the Elephant. I recently found this article as I was researching pictures of elephants on the internet for a painting.
When I first moved to Los Angeles a little over a year ago there was a photography show called Ashes and Snow. The photos are large sepia prints depicting the sacred relationship between animals and people. Beautiful pictures of elephants were among the first images I saw. The gallery was dark and full of people and suddenly I found myself crying looking at these elephants. This had never happened to me before and it was overwhelming. The photos of the other animals were also beautiful but every time I saw the elephants my eyes filled with tears. The feeling was of awe, sadness, and joy looking at them. Your story about Mary brought all of those emotions back for me to experience again.
Storytelling has always been important for human beings and good stories are of critical importance as our world is changing. Stories fertilize the imaginations of humanity and give us the freedom and strength to believe that we can accomplish anything. Thank you for sharing your true story, it inspires me.
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on August 10th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Dear Mista and Misis Hunt,
Thank you very very much for letting me stay at the bootiful house with the nice fireplace and garden full of insects and a family of cats with very cute kittens. A grasshoper jumped on my shoulder and I screamed verry much but it became my frend and I called it hoppy. I think it is a girl. I also stayed a bit at the orfanage every day and was a very good mumi to all the animals even the babies. You can ask fundi and jane. I fed lyn and speedy and I had refused to sit on him but I did on the last day. I have told mumi to make sure she sends you the foto of me waving to you. I will come and visit soon and feed more animals and learn about them. I will take fotos to school when we open and teach them about the orfanage. I have to go and eat supper now but I will come back and say hallo when you are there.
Thank you.
Sharon