Anticipating the start of a new year is always a bit daunting… especially if the ‘old’ year you are seeing out was a rollercoaster year – births, deaths and everything else life could possibly throw at you! But in many ways I always feel that ‘difficult’ years often mean that I look forward with eagerness to what a brand new year might bring!
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So on the 31 December I will be saying ‘goodbye’ to 2011 and the sadness attached to it, and I will be welcoming 2012 with a big ‘hug’.
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions as such, but I do have a ‘wish’ list – and my lists are always impossibly long! Hey, I’m a Gemini – and we tend to believe EVERYTHING and ANYTHING is possible.
In the Spring I hope to get back to marketing my debut novel Touched By The Light and consider releasing Being A Sceptic Is Oh So Easy in paperback. When I wrote the latter it was simply a collection of my psychic experiences and personal thoughts on things like deja vu, coincidences and ‘gut feelings’. It was also my first venture on Kindle, so I regarded it very much as a tester. However, so many readers have contacted me to say they identified with it, and have then gone on to tell me their own experiences, that it’s become rather special to me. So, yes, I would like to see it in print. I love Kindle and wouldn’t be without it, but there is something special about holding a book in your hands….
I’m also hoping to bring out two new novels in 2012 – The Quintessential Gemini and The Restaurant, and I’ll be posting some extracts early next year if you want to find out more!
As for the project in which I’m involved over at loveahappyending.com, well that was one of the very GOOD things that happened in 2011 and something that helped me get through the rough times. Well, that and the loving hugs of three adorable grandchildren…
With a wonderful loveahappyending.com event planned for 16 June 2011 – a Summer Audience of Readers and Authors being held in Tetbury, Gloucestershire in the UK, it’s going to be an exciting year all round!
There is a saying ‘life is what you make it’. Fate doesn’t always make the path we travel easy, but then that’s the purpose of life on this plane – it’s where we come to learn at various stages in our existence, so we can grow….
So as 2011 draws to a close, I have one final, and rather special ‘psychic moment’ to share. My Uncle died, aged 92, on 23 October 2011 and for the last 8 years my husband and I had been supporting him so he could remain at home. The end was not very pleasant – ‘harrowing’ actually. Since he passed I’ve been asking for a sign, a form of comfort as it wasn’t the gentle ending I wanted for him; it was deeply distressing to be there holding his hand whilst he endured those final weeks. The message didn’t come directly to me, but low and behold, a family member who went to see a psychic recently came back with a message for me. It was unmistakeably from him, he worked on Concord and the odds of that coming up are quite slim I should imagine. Short and sweet (as was his style) – he’s’ OK’ and wanted to say ‘thanks’.
That’s all I was looking for, I now know the end didn’t really matter…
So wishing everyone a very happy and healthy New Year – let’s make 2012 the best it can be, taking the rough with the smooth and making sure we grab every single second of happiness that comes our way!
best regards, Linn