#WednesdayWisdom ‘If I Could Change…’ #1linewed #WWWBlogs #Tanka

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021LucciaGray 1 Comment

If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn’t change a single thing.

“Change” is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1991 album, Real Love. It was written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris. More about Lisa Stansfield on her blog.

Change

If I could change

The way I live my life today

I wouldn’t change a thing

Because if I changed my world

I wouldn’t be who I am

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Basically, those 31 syllables say it all.

Everything I have ever seen, done, experienced, learnt, and everyone I have ever seen, heard, met, loved, or not, has brought me to this moment in time, and I wouldn’t change any of it.

But just to clarify, here are another 31 syllables.

Me

This is who I am,

All that is, was, and will be

Exists in this time,

Breathe it, live it, and love it,

There is no other moment.

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#WednesdayWisdom ‘Dark and Stormy’ #1linewed #WWWBlogs #JaneEyre

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019LucciaGray 4 Comments

If you feel as if you’re in a tiny fishing boat, alone in a vast, dark and stormy sea, and there’s nothing you can do to help yourself, look around, do something for someone else to make you feel better.

And the best thing is it works.

Your own troubles will seem less dark, you’ll feel good about helping someone else, and who knows? Perhaps you’ll be someone else’s distraction from their own dark and stormy feelings. Trust karma.

Jane helping Rochester after falling from his horse.

Jane Eyre knew all about the positive effects of helping others:

My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.

These are Jane’s reflections in Chapter XII, after meeting and helping an unknown gentleman who had fallen off his horse on a cold, dark afternoon in January, when the days are very short and dark in Yorkshire. Jane had offered to take a letter Mrs. Fairfax needed posting to Hay, which was a two mile walk away.

Jane had been feeling sad and lonely after spending the first winter months at Thornfield, and yet, a kind gesture led to a second kind gesture and her first meeting with Mr. Rochester.

Jane overcame her passivity and ventured out of her comfort zone, to help others, and in so doing she opened new avenues by meeting the man who would change her life.

If she had satyed at home wallowing in her loneliness and misery, they would probably never have met. Mr. Rochester probably would have had no interest in meeting his ward’s governess under normal circumstances.

Don’t don’t overindulge in your own problems, if you can’t do anything for yourself, do something for someone else!

#WordlessWednesday #1linerweds ‘I wish you could smell the orange blossom in my photos’

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017LucciaGray 3 Comments

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#1linewed #1linerweds Twisted

March 22, 2017LucciaGray 13 Comments

They look may ornamental, but they’re still twisted, iron bars to keep the princess locked in her tower, or perhaps they’re keeping her safe…

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How can I unbend my thoughts,

Twisted like forged iron window grills?

How can I reach the spaces

Trapped between the metal curves?

How can I see the light

Beyond the solid blackness?

How can I melt the unyielding ore and

Unlock the princess in the tower?

Tell me how!

Maybe it’s the beginning of a rainy spring, maybe it’s just that some projects are taking longer than I thought, maybe I’m a little stuck in my WIPs, maybe there are too many WIPs… Probably, it’s just one of those days…

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#1LinerWeds #WordlessWednesday Field of Wildflowers

March 8, 2017LucciaGray 1 Comment

There’s something bold and beautiful about these fragile flowers that flourished before the winter waned and will wither before spring blooms.

If somebody accused these spectacular wildflowers, bursting with beauty, of being less inspiring than a rose, would anyone agree? Not me!

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#1lineWed Love her! #FlashFiction

February 15, 2017LucciaGray 3 Comments

#1lineWed theme for this week is Love.

My tweet: Love her if she makes you happy or sad. Love her if she heals or hurts you. Love her because you have to love her. Just Love her.

Such a wonderful word warrants at least a few more lines, so here they are:

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For Elsa

Love her.

Love her when she makes you happy

Love her even when she makes you sad

Love her if she smiles

Love her if she cries.

Love her when she heals you

Love her when she hurts you.

Love her because you love to love her.

Love her because you can’t not love her.

Just Love her.

My granddaughter, Elsa

Yesterday was Saint Valentine’s Day. Her are a few more lines about love

#WordlessWednesday & #1LinerWeds on Life and Coffee

August 10, 2016August 10, 2016LucciaGray 6 Comments

I’ve just discovered via Twitter, that there’s a Blog called Create With Joy which hosts, among other events, #WordlessWednesday. There’s a badge and a linky at the end of Joy’s the post and there’s a Facebook and Twitter connection, too. So, I’ll be joining in. The only rule seems to be ‘sharing family-friendly photos’. Sounds fun and easy. Most entries have some text, too, but I’ll be keeping it to the minimum.

This week, I’ve been looking over my holiday photos, and I was thinking how the basic, simple things in life bring us the greatest pleasure. Water. Looking at pure, clean, fresh water has a calming effect.

These pictures were taken standing at the edge of one of the largest dams in Spain ‘El Pantano del Ebro’ in Cantabria. There’s a little beach ‘Playa de Arija‘, where people can swim, too, and there’s a camping site. Well worth a visit if you’re ever in the north of Spain.

As usual, I’m going to be linking #WordlessWednesday to #1LinerWeds on Linda G. Hill’s blog, which I’ve been taking part in on and off.

I’m joining both this week. Lind’s 1-liner is C is for Coffee.

I love Jim Carey. He’s funny, he’s intelligent, he’s caring and I love the things he says in his inspirational talks.

I love this quote, which has some relation to coffee 🙂 but it’s really about not taking anything or anyone for granted and remembering there’s a time limit to everything.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.’

While I’m working, one of the best moments in my mornings is my coffee break, when I chat to my colleagues and sometimes my students (I teach adults, so we often have a coffee and a chat during the break). The reason’s not because I don’t like my job (I love it), but because I love speaking and listening to people informally.

I enjoy those brief moments (20-30 minute break) of relaxed and real conversation, which inspire me as a writer. No wonder those 18th century coffee shops contributed to the Enlightenment and the rise of the novel…

Anyone else for coffee?

#WordlessWednesday & #OneLinerWednesday On Life, Birth and Death

August 3, 2016LucciaGray 3 Comments

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday.

Birth: The source of the Spanish River Ebro, the second longest river in the Iberian peninsula, in Fontibre (in Spanish the source of a river is called its birth: nacimiento).

Death: Ancient Cemetery next to the Romanic style Visigothic church at Retortillo, Cantabria, Spain built on the ruins of a Roman necropolis known as Julióbriga, a few kilometers away from the river’s source.