Introducing Flat Lindsey. About a month ago, a friend of mine brought in a silly calendar that immediately caught our attention at the nurses’ station. The calendar consisted of life-size cardboard cut-out photographs of herself. Each photograph of “Cardboard Lindsey” was hilariously posed and staged at all sorts of family events that she didn’t actually physically attend. Picnics, birthdays, beach vacations. Lindsey was there doing exaggerated poses pointing in all the right (or wrong) directions, living her best imaginary life with her nieces’ family!
He went on to share the story behind it, which was even better. She went on to say that her teenage niece once jokingly wished she could have Lindsey as a mother for Christmas. Lindsey went all in on the joke and then gifted him a life-sized cutout of herself. Instead of a “one-off” Christmas gag gift, it became a year-long adventure of photos with cardboard Lindsey all over the place.
The story continued as the prank evolved until the following year, when Lindsey was presented with her niece’s calendar that compiled and captured in a calendar all of the ridiculous moments Lindey had experienced on cardboard the previous year.
Triggering a wave of nostalgia, I remembered a school project my kids did in elementary school called “Flat Stanley.” Out of the blue, someone suggested I do a “Flat Lindsey” to take on The PCT (The Pacific Crest Trail), and thus Flat Lindsey was born. In case you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing this elementary school project in the early 2000s. Here’s the snapshot: Based on the book by Jeff Brown published in 1964, The Flat Stanley project is a geography and global literacy activity, where children design a paper cutout character universally called «Flat Stanley.» It is then mailed to family and friends who become part of the project by taking pictures with the cutout all over them. The photographs are then sent to the children with explanations of all the adventures of “Flat Stanley”.
Why not? Disclaimer: I’m so excited to post and carry the extra weight of «Lindsey flat.» However, I don’t promise to bring her to Canada. I can’t 100% guarantee her safe passage through the desert or the Sierra, but I will provide her with all the adventure I can in hopes of reaching the summit of Mount Whitney with her. So far we’re off to a great start. She helped me prepare my overnight oats and shake out my final package. I imagine that during the lonely nights she will be good company, perhaps Castaway’s version of my own “Wilson,” so to speak. T-1 days, so if you want to follow our adventures and see how far it goes to Canada on The Pacific Crest Trail, hit me up on my Instagram. I will be sending postcards to my coworkers at the hospital. Happy trails!
Amy and «Flat Lindsey»
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