1. I never told you this, but..

I have always wanted to start a project with you.

Only recently did we first discuss the possibility of it happening, but already it has blossomed into a realisation. I know what we said about it being by post, and while that is very romantic and old fashioned, and letters are treasures, I think that we are far more likely to contribute and create in this format. We are co-authors, and although to take it in turns, to reply back and forth like a dialogue would make a sensible framework, it is perhaps more realistic to say that we write here, in the private space, when and if we can. When forced, we can never write the most heartfelt, sincere, creative things.

I am very interested by the idea of secret honesty. The idea of something being unknown to all others but one; this can still be honest, yet it remains hidden from public view. That being so, can dishonesty not be public? Can personal secrecy be dishonest if you're honest to yourself? Can privacy only be secret? These questions stimulate the dusty out of practise parts of my brain, and that is a nice feeling.

I feel like our relationship has become intrinsically linked to the idea of honesty and truth, in a way we can never return from. This is a powerful but of course beautiful thought; that you and I are from now on bound to being open and true. While this blog has a sentimental and in some ways serious backdrop, I think that within 'Things I Never Told You' there is definitely room for the sweet, and the silly, and the nostalgic. I have a huge store up of things you don't yet know. Opinions I have now or have had. Events that shaped my life, or daydreams of events I hope will one day. Encounters, Dreams, Dislikes, Ideas Likes, Loves.

It can be just a photo. It could be a song, or a written ramble. It could be a scanned in image, a drawing, as many or as few words are you like. The first line of the entry should be the 'thing' that you haven't told me, and the number of the event should be numbered, just like this is number 1.

I hope this writing place makes you feel as happy as it does me.

Alice