Random House sent me the proposed cover for my next book, out this fall, “Saving Simon: How A Rescue Donkey Taught Me The Meaning Of Compassion.” It’s my photo, and a good choice, I think, and I’m happy the story of Simon becomes a story of the meaning of compassion in all of it’s many different forms. I wanted to share it with you, it might change and morph in one way or another, but the Random House team likes it a lot, and that usually means it will happen. I like it too.

I am excited to be bringing the story of the donkey in general, and my story of Simon in particular, out in a book. Donkeys are ready to be discovered, they have been shunted to the side for too long, and Simon’s story turned out to be a powerful one in my life – his rescue, the road to Rocky, Florence, the Open Houses,  Red and Maria, and to our new lives at Bedlamfarm2.0.

Simon did not save me, an overused term in animal literature, he did teach me the meaning of compassion, and that is the narrative spine of this book.