Dear Me--2010

Dear Me,

I read the last Dear Me letter I wrote yesterday.  I don't suppose many of my dreams and hopes have changed.  I still want to write for publication, and I still don't have much expectation of that happening.  But I do hope to maintain the goal.

I hope to continue to study Latin.  I have been very excited about my studies in Latin translation.  I hope I can do similar work in Hebrew.  I am greatly intimidated by the Hebrew since it requires a whole new alphabet.  But we press on.

I have a few witing goals for this year besides being published.  The excitement of putting words on paper never gets old.  I have short stories and poems wrestling for a chance to be next.  They clamor over one another to get to the top of the heap.  Sometimes in the process they get tangled and contaminate each other.  My biggest problem is to sort through the pile to find all the parts.

I have a few goals that don't exactly center on writing.  Since I moved I have not finished decorating my house.  I want to assemble some more things for the walls.  I want things that will be inspiring to me and will reflect my attitude and faith to others.  Boy, life is hard, even decorating the walls is hard.

My friend Lou has inspired me to begin some efforts in art.  I have a picture or two in my head that I would like to transfer to paper.  I don't think I'm that good, but she suggested that I should have my pictures framed and hang them.  The problem here is doing the drawing.  Visualizing a picture is very different from imagining a story.  I am afraid I have not gotten to that place yet.

Maybe by the end of 2010 I will have found some of the answers to the problems that plague me now.  It's good to have goals even if I never accomplish them as I see them from here.  I think that is the joy of life, and the adventure.  The journey is never as easy or simple or straight as it looks on the map.  I expect to learn things about myself this year, and maybe some I didn't want to know.  I leave it in God's hands to take me to the place He wants me to be. 

So, Happy New Year, everybody.  And don't forget to fly a kite.  You get to look up.

Come fly with me!