The Book of Boo...

"...head for the trees, BooBoo!  I know those trees.  We're almost home!"

I've never been one for New Year's Resolutions. They don't don't seem to have a good reputation for working. Instead, from a young age, I would start off the New Year with a fresh calendar and I would choose a date sufficiently far into the year, and write what I hoped would have happened by then.  Like, at age 7 I might write on the Oct 13 square " I will have a pony by this day"  or when I was 13, "Mark will be my boyfriend by this day" or when I was 21, "I will be engaged by this day".  In the not so distant past, I have been known to write " I will weigh 107 by this day." [!!]

my yearly calendar

Sadly, I don't think any of those things ever happened by "that day", but yet, like Yonks, I'm decidedly optimistic about each and every year, even those "doomed" to be the end of all years!

I mean, I never actually got a pony, but I did end up with lots of horses.  And I never actually ever got engaged, but I eloped with the man of my dreams,
[and after 4 decades it seems to be working].

                                     John Upton
love struck hippies that we were


  
ANYWAY...


One of my favorite Bible verses is from Psalm 37

 via

The usual interpretation is that He will give you what you want.  That may be true.  But I also think it means, that He will "place within your heart" the right desires.


So, as my family sat down to put out into the air our hopes and aspirations for 2012, and after we had expressed our prayer for Peace on Earth, and prayers for physical and emotional healing for friends and family, we each gave one special, personal dream that we would desire for ourselves this year...  


and mine is,


[takes deep breath]


 that I might see my photographs published in a real, appearing-on-Amazon.com-and-in-my-local-bookstore- book. Photos like the one on the top, which is part of a children's story called "The Book of Boo".


I won't place that in a square on my calendar, but I will voice it here.  And I'll come back in a year and check to see what's happened.


Now if only I could find someone to write the words..


And speaking of books, maybe I've been inspired by this... have you ordered your copy?? 

And it is appearing on Amazon.com,here

Kristin's blog was the first one I ever read, back in 2005.  This book is based on the delightful stories from her blog, 
French-Word-a-Day
This book is a great read!

à plus tard, mes copines,

dawne