Month: February 2015

I Dream A World

A Writer's Dream(s)

I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom’s way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!

– American poet, Langston Hughes

from http://www.peacepursuit.wordpress.com

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“I believe that true success is helping others to flourish. I believe if you are blessed, you can and should be a blessing (not just for/to yourself, but to others. “

Craig's Quotes

“I believe that true success is helping others to flourish. I believe if you are blessed, you can and should be a blessing (not just for/to yourself, but to others. ”

The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4

http://goo.gl/vTpjk (and/or http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock)

https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE (paperbacks)

and http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books

All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –

MINE!

“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”

Photo (great) by my old friend John (“the world’s third worst photographer”, so he calls himself), but whose photographic talents I definitely  do NOT possess)!

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“Look across all sport and observe the truly great. All had this zest for combat, this taste for being truly tested. All wished to explore (and even expand*) the limits of their own possibilities…”

https://formula1mind.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/look-across-all-sport-and-observe-the-truly-great-all-had-this-zest-for-combat-this-taste-for-being-truly-tested-all-wished-to-explore-and-even-expand-the-limits-of-their-own-possibilities/

“You think you have a limit. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”

from   https://grandprixdrivermyblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/sharing-some-quotes-from-the-late-great-ayrton-senna/

from http://www.inspiringvideo.wordpress.com

The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” (including those on sport, motor racing, Formula 1 and the mind) are available at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4

http://goo.gl/vTpjk (and/or http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock)

https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE (paperbacks)

and http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books

All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –

MINE!

“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”

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from http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Lap-Ultimate-Source-unfolds/dp/1490388265/

Table Mountain Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town: My pictures of the beautiful "Mother City" of South Africa

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

– Leonardo Da Vinci

for more great pictures by John click on https://johnsphotopics.wordpress.com/table-mountain-pictures/

and http://www.onetaleoftwocities.wordpress.com

“The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.”

eagle John

Photo (great) by my old friend John (“the world’s third worst photographer”, so he calls himself), but whose photographic talents I definitely  do NOT possess)!

“Our talents are our gift from God, but what we do with them are our gifts to God, Ultimate Source.”

from http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com

“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”

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“The difference between the impossible and possible is merely a measure of man’s (a person’s) will, determination and persistence.”

The Champion

from

Mandela (father of a nation)
“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”
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A Mandela Rainbow Pretoria 12th December 2013

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“In the depth of the valleys there is hope. In the deserts of despair, there is the refreshing oasis of the human spirit…always.”

YOU can be a Champion of Hope (to others)

red skypictures from http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com

click on https://sportforpeace.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/you-can-be-a-champion-of-hope/

“In the depth of the valleys there is hope. In the deserts of despair, there is the refreshing oasis of the human spirit…always.”
– c

from http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com

 

“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”
Paddleboard by Gemma Chapman (credit House of Travel)
Picture: Paddleboard Nelson by Gemma Chapman (credit House of Travel)
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YOU can be “a champion of hope”

Sport for Peace: Sport Transcending Boundaries

senna (best)

picture from http://www.ayrtonsennadasilva.wordpress.com and http://www.youcanbeachampion.wordpress.com

YOU can be “a champion of hope“, “a ray of sunshine in a very dark sky”

to others  (stuck in the often very dark corners of life’s journey)

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“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”

“Together, one mind, one heart, one life, one small step at a time, let’s link hands and march into a new tomorrow, a better and brighter future. TOGETHER we can do it”

– c

TOGETHER, one mind, one heart, one soul, one small step at a time, we can make some difference towards a better world, a brighter tomorrow

from http://www.breakdownwalls.wordpress.com

“SHARE, ENCOURAGE and SPREAD, HOPE, LOVE and LIGHT”

good morning, sunshine

Photos…

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A Book about a Writer Writing a Book!!??

writers block

Click on https://craigswritingjourney.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/monty-python-on-novel-writing/

from www.ebooksdigibooks.wordpress.com and

https://craigswritingarticles.wordpress.com/

“I know when a writer’s in trouble….when he/she resorts to writing about writing.”

– novelist Guy Ableman to his agent Doesn’t sound very exciting (or promising for me) then… does it!

from https://thecreativewritingcourse.wordpress.com/category/books-by-craig-lock/

“A writer’s really deep in the  smelly brown stuff when they desperately resort to running creative writing courses!”

“Those who can do, those who can’t teach.”*

* however, this definitely does not apply to school-teachers, who do a most valuable  job!

PPS

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

– Colette

“Life is far too important (a subject) to be taken too seriously”

from www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com

The aim is to write a book that is “a celebration of a person’s unique vision – a vision which reaches out and shines, touching with magic the drama of life across all it’s limitless horizons.”

TO THE END OF THE RAINBOW: A New "Work" by Craig Lock

from  

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/

 

The aim is to write a book that is “a celebration of a person’s unique vision – a vision which reaches out and shines, touching with magic the drama of life across all it’s limitless horizons.”

– as inspired by Richard Bach in A Gift of Wings #

A hard one  to fulfil that , but perhaps we’ll give it a go!

“it always seems impossible…

until it get’s done.”

– Nelson Mandela

from   .www.mandelamadiba.wordpress.com

“The characters seem to represent the virtues and the resilience of the ‘little’ people, a story (or stories) to which we can all relate. In essence it’s about hope, faith and love: a tale (and tales) of the unquenchable spirit of tenacity in battling on, no matter what are our circumstances. And then eventually finding a way,a pathway to overcome personal adversity … and to ultimately succeed…

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