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About a month ago I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting a great blogger, and we got into some fantastic discussion about what drives our creativity. A question he asked me about a certain children's book project I am working on spurred a whole passionate deluge of my love of languages - the musicality, the concepts they try to embody but somehow just miss, the vehicles they are for connection and human emotion, etc. Having grown up in a household where Spanish and Italian were spoken, having married a Brazilian, having taken French, I am completely in love with the musicality and emotional intensity of the Latin-based languages. And, as I was explaining this to him, it was the focus of my mission to bring that musicality and vibrancy to life in my little picture book, but using the English language. I specifically did not use poetry, but wanted a poetic feeling - just like the every day conversation in Latin-based countries provide a poetry to their communications, just because it is and not because it is sought.