My daughter and I had the most magical day at the Zoo last week!
I felt like Dr Doolittle and was honored by the presence of some magnificence creatures.
We had some amazing, close up encounters with animals. It was as if they KNEW we meant no harm, felt the love and respect, then responded by wanting to bask in our energy. The feeling was definitely mutual!
First a  Macaw flew down right in front of me and rubbed against the wire, wanting a scritchy scratch. Then a Cassowary did the same. Several cheeky little squirrels crossed our path and were undeterred from their foraging.
Then finally a kangaroo jumped over the barrier and hopped down the path after us.It stayed with us for quite a while until an enthusiastic toddler jumped up to it (literally jumping like a kangaroo)and frightened it off.
It reminded me of a trip to the zoo years ago, when my daughter was only 2 years old. We were standing in front of a glass barrier watching some Silvery Gibbons swinging masterfully through the trees. A baby Silvery Gibbon came right up to the glass and started to play with my daughter. They 'touched' through the glass and mirrored each others movements. It went on for quite a while and a keeper came over to watch in amazement at this phenomenal interaction. Eventually the baby gibbon's mother swung down and broke it up. 
It is an experience I will treasure!

I do wish more people got a chance to experience such events, they would truly be inspired into action to save the wonderful creatures we share our earth with.

My ‘Dream Job’ has always been to be an author (of children’s stories). But pursue that dream as hard as I might…. It hasn’t happened for me, not yet anyway. In fact the pursuit of my dream has caused me a great deal of sorrow and heartache. For me it was my way to change the world, make a difference. I so passionately believed with all my heart and soul that THIS was my life’s purpose.
It seemed perfectly natural, I trained as a teacher, loved kids and so wanted them to have a different childhood than I had. So I wrote story after story and got rejection after rejection. All the while telling myself that I needed to have faith and believe.
If you dream it, you can be it!
If you truly give it all you have, you can achieve anything!
Dreams really do come true.
If you follow your passion you can’t go wrong.
Things happen in God’s time.

Each rejection I took as an opportunity to grow, so I would try something else, improve on what I had written. I sought professional help and got a few stories edited and evaluated- just in case they were being rejected because they were in actual fact….. just not very good. (You do have to face that at some point) I got a glowing review for one of them at least… but still no offers from publishers. This game went on for years…. Write a story….. wait months for a reply…. Send it off…..wait for a reply.
How long do you pin your hopes on a dream that just doesn’t seem to be working out? How long is ‘God’s time’? When do you give up on a dream? Am I on the right path? These are all questions I began to ask myself last year. Rejection after rejection, had made me face the fact that maybe I was wrong after all.
Then, with a lot of unpleasant stuff going on my life- yet another ‘sorry’ letter arrived in my letterbox. This was the last straw and I ‘Spat the dummy!’ I put all of my writing in a box and there it has stayed.

‘I need something new in my life’ I decided. Perhaps it was time to let the universe direct the flow of my life. But there was no reply from the universe, no flow, just nothingness! Months of nothingness!
I had never felt so lonely in all my life, so utterly empty.
What do you do when you don’t have a dream?
Where do you go when the universe doesn’t flow?
I fell into a big black hole and couldn’t see the light.
It has been a long climb out of the hole I found myself in. There is a lot of time to think, in the stillness and dark. I learned a lot……….
I don’t have to BE anything, just me. I don’t need a title or a label to make me happy, or proud and it is OK just to BE ME. The most important place to BE is in the here and now, not off in some wonderful future.
I just watched the movie ‘Evan Almighty’ with my daughter a few days ago and one thing really struck me…. ARK- Acts of Random Kindness. This is how God told Evan he could ‘change the world’, by one random act of kindness at a time.
Be the change.
At times I really think that the name I chose is a bit lame,(Dragonfly Dreamer) but every time I think of changing it, I remember why I chose it in the first place- just to keep the possibility alive.
With a glimmer of hope and a sprinkle of magic, who knows what might happen?
The future is after all… ours to create.