This year I will be that little bird with her mouth open singing and squawking whether her audience is interested or not. This year I will lick stamps and put my essays and poems and flash fiction bits into the mystery-that-is-the-mail and even if all I get back is a rejection letter, at least I will have created something and sent it somewhere besides the bottom of my bookshelf.

Thanks to Caroline Cook and Andrew LeCates for sharing your inspirational photographs with me and el mundo!

Happy 2008!!!

Molly Thorsen Connolly