Challenges

"Until you try you don't know what you can't do"  Henry James

Very excited to be enrolled in a digital camera workshop this weekend!

My gorgeous hubby blessed me with a pretty spiffy camera so it's time to see what this baby can do!

Music & Magic

Wikipedia says:

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Magic is an art form that entertains an audience by creating illusions. Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure. Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements.

I say:

MUSIC = MAGIC = SMILE = PEACE = JOY = LOVE = MAGIC = MUSIC

Snowdrifts in Spring....

 This Almond tree produces the most amazingly large blossom flowers which drop their petals when the breeze picks up - a small snow drift in Spring!

Follow your Bliss

Joseph Campbell once said "Follow your Bliss" Here are a few shots of BLISS and its followers...

Gratitude

So very grateful for my beautiful, enchanted, safe, inspired and authentic life... I am blessed, truly blessed.

A few of my favourite things

Words

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and of valour. Of the endless fluid passage of humanity through endless time. And of those who labour and of those who - one word - love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him he felt a warning, a shaft of terror. Between the two worlds he was suspended. He saw that he was looking at his own face in the counter glass before him.    (Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter)

                                                                  

Don't you just love words! They truly are the stuff of magic and mystery. I see a book as a time travelling machine. Actually more like the beautiful brass bed in the classic Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks - haven't seen it? You must! Since I mostly read in bed it seems an appropriate metaphor. I make the tea, I prop the pillows, I pop on the reading specs and... I'm off. So this my first post (technically my second, I know, but really my first does not count since it was more of an introduction than a post) is dedicated to authors, writers and magical magicians who weave time machines for us using the thread of language and the fabric of life. Thank you! If you love books as much as I do then I know another of my dreams is sure to come true... The Worlds Biggest Book Club... (watch this space)