Alright, dearest Friends... I don't know how to even start to express my feelings of gratitude to all of you! Your comments on the articles I posted about our horses, your awesome words of support and wishes of success, your generous and kind, warm reviews on those poems that I simply couldn't help writing even when I didn't have time for writing, and your understanding when it comes to these apparently incongruous things like "writing when one has no time for writing", which make all the sense to no one else except to other writers, have not ceased to make me feel incredibly fortunate... and very, very guilty, indeed! Why? Well, because I have been terribly "rusty" in my responses and even more so in my expressions of appreciation of your own creations, which I have nonetheless been reading regularly, with that pleasure that fills one with a warm glow all over - the pleasure of savouring truly marvelous creations, both in poetry and in prose. Wow, so much talent, so much passion, such exquisite sensitivity, such ART with so much HEART! More of you amazing authors have been contributing to keep this reader in a state of enchantment than you may suspect it, and it is quite impossible for me to list you all. I would just like to add that I'm also thinking of some authors that are relatively new in the AD family, and whose works will soon, I hope, have the recognition and accolades they so deserve, because they are quite extraordinary. So, to all of you, both those who have shared their art with us for several years and whom we all have grown to admire and love deeply, and those who recently have come to enrich this family with the precious creations they share with us, let me extend my heartfelt Thanks and wishes of continued success in all of your creative endeavours.
Also, on the eve of the completion of a highly cherished Dream for Joseph and myself, let me wrap you all in a very affectionate {{{{{{{{{hug}}}}}}}}}} and in this unrelenting faith that all of your most cherished wishes, hopes and dreams may likewise become realities.
All the blessings of Love&Light* to you all!
Your grateful Friend
Alexandra*