First official day at my new job, CEO of the Draw Your Imagination company. I had an excellent day filled with day dreaming (maybe we should call that ‘brainstorming’) and real business development. I drafted the company mission and included an outline of products. I let it flow freely, remembering that I can always make changes, edits and improvements with later revisions. As part of my day dreaming, I was remembering where the idea for each book came to me; what was the core of the inspiration. This brought me back to my life at Casa Rustica, and as I was vividly remembering each tiny detail of the place, I began to write. It is such a simple book, and it seemed like a lovely place to start –back at the beginning, where it had all started for me anyway. I finished a draft for the book, and vowed to correct the details and refine it tomorrow. Maybe add a little more rhyming or rhythm, bring more color from Costa Rica to it, make the word choice convey as visceral experience as you can while keeping a young audience engaged. At the end of this first day, I looked for color inspirations to reflect how I feel and how this journey I’m on is unfolding. I found this flower a perfect example. What I appreciate the most is how the full color yellow drawns you in, and inspires you to look closer and closer. And then that close inspection is rewarded with greater and greater detail and wonder. What are those star shapes in the flower’s core? And those circles, what are they? Are those buds I see in the frame also? And who ate the petal’s edge? Isn’t the color of periwinkle blue just amazing? It is that awe and wonder, that eye dancing [wonder], that I am looking for, and what I am looking to convey with words and art. I want to tell stories that bring colors and light to the mind, and spread smiles across sweet faces of children.