Confessions of a Hoarder

Since I don't really have any pictures to speak of, I have to say that if I had to choose my ultimate favorite things they would by far be my books. I have books about gardening, decorating, life, science, animals, drawing and I still own almost every textbook I have ever bought for school. I love how you can learn about anything you could think of just by getting the right book. I love the sound a book makes when it is being opened for the first time, and of course I have to take a deep breath in every time I walk into Barnes & Noble. My confession however is not that I love books. My confession is that I tend to buy lots of books on subjects that I really love and then I am to afraid to use them. I may own ten books about drawing, and I may have read every page in every one of them at least two or three times, but in the end I have never drawn a picture and I probably never will. Sad to say, but I guess that trying and failing in something that really mattered to me would be worse than never trying (so I must think). I hold my most precious ideas and passions close, and I seldom let them out. This is my confession, and it makes me sad to say it. It's like I am always saving the best things for last, but the reality is that the best should be enjoyed first. Why don't we have dessert first? By the time we get to the best part, we are full and can no longer enjoy it in the same way. So instead of filling my days with things I love, I waste them by filling them with trivial time suckers like watching T.V. So here it is; my new year's resolution: I will not save the best for last. If you're always saving the best for last, you'll never get to the best part. It is only by coincidence that I am posting this on new year's eve, but I couldn't think of better timing.

I have attached this picture for no particular reason other than I felt like it. When I saw these carrots in the grocery store with these most spectacular tops, I just couldn't resist. I am sure you remember mom :) I could always learn from Pickles. He is definitely not shy about going after whatever he wants most. He sees an almond, and suddenly nothing else matters because that's what he loves more than anything.