I don't intend to start up the TFTD series, again, but wanted to share this with you all. I was going to put it in a PM to the one who inspired me, but decided some cheerful news might be a good balance for all of the heavy stuff we have been dealing with lately around here. Please know I mean no offense nor to dismiss any of the troubles.

This morning, I woke up with indescribable joy in my heart. It spilled over into tears as I sat in my sanctum giving thanks for this day and for all of the other things I am working on for myself and other folks. I cried from the great welling up of joy; joy which comes of seeing, for the first time, a Grand Plan which has been woven over the years to make up an almost complete whole cloth of my writings. (It will be complete over the next couple of years.)

There have been a few times in my life when I could look back and say, "Oh! That's why that happened and look where it landed me, today." But, I've never felt such a completeness about my writing, in that way, until now. The joy I feel is so complete and comes mostly from *SEEING* the way things have been worked through my life over the years to come to this completely undreamed of outcome*
Thank you!






*I have been writing a query letter and synopis of my novel, Prairie Child, with the involvement of another Mudcatter who has helped me with invaluable input. This person has read the novel and said they cannot wait to read what happens to the main character next! I had no thoughts of ever writing again about "Kally" until night before last. My friend's words echoed in my brain; thoughts and phrases for a new book kept popping up. Then it dawned on me, that the second novel is already written and will be the ancestral "backstory" of Kally. I will be starting on the third one which will pick up where PC leaves off sometime this year, may wait for NaNoWriMo which is next Nov. as that is how I wrote the first two. THEN, I will finish a fourth one which has been languishing for years. Never has felt like quite the right time to work on it. Now that I see it as a part of a series, it makes perfect sense to me.

I don't feel I have expressed myself very well in this message, but wanted to share with you my friends and tell you thank you for being here.

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