Inspired

Shared Focus - Wandering

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering.  The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world.  It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now, for ever.”

Freya Stark

I’m very excited about a new project that I’m involved in…a photography collaboration called Shared Focus.   Although we’ve never met in person, my fellow collaborator… Martie (So Many Roads) and I have “known” each other for three years via blogging.  We share a common interest passion for photography and although our styles differ (I tend to digitally manipulate to excess!), we decided that a challenge was just what we needed to step outside the box and begin focusing our lenses with new eyes.  Check out our new home for this project at Shared Focus and our first collaboration, where the topic this week is “wandering”.

This post is also a contribution to Sunday Citar which is hosted by Tabitha at Fresh Mommy.

Sunday Citar...What If?

 

 

I’ve dreamt in my life,

dreams

that have stayed with me

ever after

and changed my idea's;

they’ve gone through and through me

like wine through water

and altered the

colours of my mind

Emily Bronte

 

Dreams require much of us…

they require a freedom to wander down unexplored pathways, 

and the gentle ease to unravel and exhale a heart held taut. 

We’re required to lay worry down

at the foot of a wise old tree

and shed layers of doubt and disbelief

that are worn like clothing long outgrown.

 

Oh, we think we don’t have time for dreams

but really…

we have nothing but time.

We have millions and billions and trillions of moments each day

that are filled with wanting and worry and weariness

when the truth is, that every heart beat can birth a new dream.

What would happen dear ones,

if we nourished a dream like an infant in the womb?

What if we cradled it and sang to it

and believed with all our heart

that this dream will grow in strength

to the magnificent fullness

of our hearts desire?

Our dream come true.

What if?

 

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Sunday Citar - Tranquility

You owe it

to everyone you love

(including yourself)

to find pockets of

tranquility in your

busy world.

-- George Bernanos

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Sunday Citar - Dreams

Sunshine and a fresh breeze can breathe new life into any dream that's been sitting dormant for too long.  Open the windows now, and let them in.  Feel them brush past the curtains of disbelief and blocked trust.  Feel them warm your skin like sunshine.  They are already there within you waiting to be believed into being.

"The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams."

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

The photo above was taken at Fabrica Aurora in San Miquel de Allende last March. 

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Sunday Citar

 

When it's over, I want to say:  All my life I was a bride married to amazement.  I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

Mary Oliver

I'm taking part in the quote fun at Sunday Citar, hosted by Tabitha at Fresh Mommy.  "Citar" means "to quote" in Spanish. 

Both the photograph and the quote are taken from my book Seeing: unravelling the details.