“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.” — Nigel Marsh
Find what you love, Mairead.
(Spotted on a building in Cahir, Co. Tipperary…. Life can be very short)
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw.
Tell me the story you want to create, Mairead.
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
And pick it up, Mairead.
(When my sister began planning her move to Canada I wonder did she ever dream of this picture of her daughter swimming at their private beach?)
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.” – Goethe.
(Attributed to Goethe… may not be his… still like it.)
What are you dreaming you can do? Mairead.
(You see that dot on the picture? That’s a man walking a tightrope between two (very tall) buildings in Niagara….)
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.”—Norman Vincent Peale
Our last day on holidays, we’re flying home tomorrow with lots of memories and tons of photos. Thank you Canada – you’ve been great! Mairead.
(Standing on the glass floor in the CN Tower – 1,136 feet up)
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. – Henry David Thoreau
We’re off to Agawa Canyon for the weekend, Mairead.
There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light get’s in. Leonard Cohen.
Nice and bright here today, Mairead.
(One of the houses in the Fishing Village)
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do)” – Stephen Covey
More about the fishing village on Monday, Mairead.
“Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.” – Andy Warhol.
Repeat, recognise your hero beauty, Mairead.
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