This evening, that wonderful movie ‘We Bought a Zoo’ was on TV. Have you seen it? I cry every time. There are so many amazing things to that movie, but what the writers of the script and producers of the movie captured for me was the music of the animals. It just touches my soul and I swear my heart wants to explode – it just can’t contain the happiness it feels listening to such life!

The scene I’m thinking of is when Benjamin is paying bills in the evening but begins to hear the zoo come to life now that darkness has covered it. He steps out onto the porch and just listens. A slight breeze passes through the willow and all sorts of wildlife calls, screeches, roars. It’s just beautiful!  I hope at some point, I can write with such power and emotion.

And of course, that there’s a Bengal tiger in my story, too.