I’ve haven’t been doing a lot of blogging lately and haven’t done one of Sue Vincent’s prompts for ages but this week’s image really captured what I feel about Christmas this year.

This Christmas I’m lighting a candle for hope.   Not just common old ‘I hope you have a nice day’ kind of hope but a new kind – radical hope.

Some of you might know that the reason I’ve been away from my blog is because I decided to write about a eco-novel set in the future.     In my novel the main character journeys across a landscape devastated by climate change.  To write this I have had to do a lot of research into the subject.   A couple of weeks I became overwhelmed by it all.    Along with my character I became paralyzed by depression. I asked myself how could I write such a book when the implications of unchecked climate change are so dire?

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