Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Tall Dreams, Trees and the New Year


I think it's impossible to capture the grandeur of an oak tree in a photograph.  You'll have to trust me. These tangled branches of the Cummer Oak in Jacksonville, Florida are far-reaching.  They extend towards blue and they plunge back into the earth, root themselves where they began. 

Trees are my favorite, favorite. I love them.  The way they reach, it's like racing towards a dream.  A kind of restless hunger.  I have it too.  

It's a new year and, like the goddess statue below, my hunt points toward the moon.  I've never been good at resolutions so I make only one each year.  Some years I meet the goal.  Some years I don't. But, each year, January comes and I make it mine again:

Write a book.

It's my forever-goal. It's my version of dreaming.  

Happy New Year to all my friends here.  Keep your dreams tall.

3 comments:

  1. LOVE both pictures, but especially this second one.
    Write a book = a worthy goal.

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  2. You will do it. I believe in you! The timing matters not. :)
    Catherine Denton

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  3. Good one. Because when you write the book, I will read it :) Happy New Year!

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