A few days into the new year, I got a telephone call from the producer of the “JJ and Melanie in the Morning” radio show, on 93.5FM-The Flow. The producer was looking for a psychic to give predictions on the air, and found me on the Internet. Excitedly, I called him back. Unfortunately, I’d been out when he called, and by the time I responded, three hours had gone by, and he’d lined up someone else. Oh, well, it’s always fun to get invited to a party, even if you can’t go. Maybe next year! But his call got me thinking – what did I see ahead for 2012? So I sat down a few days ago and made a few predictions, which I’ll check at the end of the year – provided that the Mayans were all wrong, of course.

As I open my new Landscape of China calendar to the first page – I couldn’t find another Crop Circle wall calendar this year – I reflect for a moment on 2011, then gaze at the picture of a misty mountain that illustrates January 2012. The change from old to new. Where I’ve come from, and where I’m going. New years and new beginnings always tickle me with a bit of wistfulness, and fill me with new hope. And it especially reminds me of one of the most important beginnings I ever experienced – the birth of my daughter – and how, during that birth, I saw her soul enter her body.