picture from http://www.beliefhope.wordpress.com
http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com
and
http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com
“I can’t do much about all the suffering in the world, but all I can do is perhaps add a little touch of creativity, hope, ‘beauty and magic’, that I hope may uplift and encourage others…even if it’s just ONE person.”
from
as “inspired” by/from
https://journalistandwriter.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/united-in-grief/
https://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31
and
https://www.facebook.com/Uplift-Encourage-and-Inspire-479972392393133/
from
https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/my-book-has-just-been-published/
and
https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/my-book-has-just-been-published-paperback-version/
picture from
“There is a rich tapestry of talent in every human soul, that flows through (and from), the Source of our Being, the Spirit of God, Life. So don’t spend your days stringing and tuning your instrument; start making and playing your unique tunes of music right now.”
from
https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/category/craigs-spiritual-thoughts/
Lyrics (1986)
It’s a kind of magic
It’s a kind of magic
A kind of magic
One dream one soul one prize one goal
One golden glance of what should be
It’s a kind of magic
One shaft of light that shows the way
No mortal man can win this day
It’s a kind of magic
The bell that rings inside your mind
Is challenging the doors of time
It’s a kind of magic
The waiting seems eternity
The day will dawn of sanity
Is this a kind of magic
It’s a kind of magic
There can be only one
This rage that lasts a thousand years
Will soon be done
This flame that burns inside of me
I’m here in secret harmonies
It’s a kind of magic
The bell that rings inside your mind
Is challenging the doors of time
It’s a kind of magic
It’s a kind of magic
The rage that lasts a thousand years
Will soon be will soon be
Will soon be done
This is a kind of magic
There can be only one
This rage that lasts a thousand years
Will soon be done-done
Magic, it’s a kind of magic
It’s a kind of magic
Magic magic magic magic
Ha ha ha it’s magic
It’s a kind of magic
Songwriters: Roger Taylor
A Kind Of Magic lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Shared by “totally unmusical” c
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* By the way, do they still make them in today’s ever-faster changing world..or is it all done with mobile/smart phones?
Hi
CAN’T KEEP UP…BUT THANKS FOR THE “THANX”
I’ve had many many hundreds of thousands (even “zillions”) of comments on my various other WordPress blogs at https://craigsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/craigs-list-of-blogs-updated-sept-2011/
in recent years …true!) …a few of my blogs (including this one) went “balistically viral” a few years back.
Obsessive or WHAT! Am really pleased you are enjoying my writings, as the reason I write is to share. However I am unable to keep up with the comments and was spending entire days just on replies on my various blog pages.
Though I’m rather “driven”, I still get really, really fatigued (there’s a few books there). so sorry can’t reply individually to all you good people scattered around the planet, but DO try to read as many as possible daily (and even moderate a few when I get a “mo”), I got swamped with comments on my various blogs, so have had to close them off on all of my blogs, except for one or two of particular interest to me
Sorry and hope you can understand.
* “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
~ Franz Kafka
I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks for the thanx”
“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we create heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”
– craig (as inspired by Acts 17:28 and the words of Felicia Searcy)
“Aim at the earth and you may not get off the ground.a
“Aim at the stars and you may reach the moon.”
“Aim at heaven and you’ll have earth thrown in…
and you may even hit the stars.”
– craig (as inspired by the famous quote by CS Lewis – 24th May 2012)
“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith, hope and love be the wings that carried you there.”
– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former minister in New England, Massachusetts
“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– c
“Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.”
from http://racetothechequeredflag.wordpress.com/
and http://www.godandformula1.wordpress.com
“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
PPS
Instead of trying to reply to each one of you, I’ll just keep on writing (which I’m often told is what is “safest” for me!)
“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”
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https://www.amazon.com/Craig-Lock/e/B005GGMAW4/ref=pe_584750_33951330_sr_tc_2_0?qid=1476388259&sr=1-2-ent
http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B005GGMAW4
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
http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books
and http://goo.gl/vTpjk
All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –
MINE!
“When the writer is no more , the value of your purchase will soar! ”
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
PPS
“I wish you well on a rainy day
I wish you rainbows to brighten your day
To feel your quiet moments with a special kind of warmth
to remind you that happiness can happen
when you least expect it.
I wish you rainbows to make you laugh and smile
to show you the simple beauty of life
and to give you the magic of dreams come true.
I wish you rainbows
I wish you well.”
– Larry S. Chengges
”Since I can never see your face,
And never shake you by the hand,
I send my soul through time and space
To greet you. You will understand.”
– James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
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Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog/comment and/or kind thought(s)
from
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxslrCi5v2WzMnFoX2tfMVYzMjA/view?usp=sharing
and
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxslrCi5v2WzMnFoX2tfMVYzMjA/view?ts=58cc29feHi
This is craig and this is a quick word of sincere thanks to you ALL. I came
across the following post from international best-selling author, Bryant
McGill on his Facebook page, which I felt “inspired” to share. Bryant’s
writing summed up/put these thoughts far better than “lazy-bones” I ever
could have done, so am sharing these beautifully-written and heart-felt
sentiments in the same spirit (through copy and paste ( CONTROL C AND
V)
Personalized, “adapted” and abbreviated (edited) from
https://www.facebook.com/bryantmcgill/
Thanks (sincerely) for “the borrow” Bryant.
“Be bold and unseen forces come to one’s aid”
This is a personal message to ALL you good people around the world, who
follow my various blog pages and posts and read and comment my various
writings on WordPress and in my books. I want you to know that I really
appreciate all of you. I would love to respond to nearly every comment. I
can’t do that; however I do care that you take the time to read (and absorb)
what I’ve written and may even have commented. I do read as many
comments on my 200 + blogs as I can, but probably have missed countless
thoughts of yours, so have not replied. Sorry and thanks for the
understanding.
“Just as you grow and learn, I am also growing and learning from you
all…and really like people to THINK.”
I just felt compelled to let you know that I really appreciate you for reading
and perhaps following my various writings. Never think for a moment, that
just because I don’t respond to comments or messages that I am not paying
attention. I am paying attention and I am grateful.
I am a full-time writer, which means you are a very important part of my life.
I wish all of you the freedom, respect and happiness you each deserve. Thank
you all for being a part of my life. Your presence, feedback and contribution
“out there in cyberspace” has added immeasurable to my ‘little’ life here in
“isolated and far-off Sleepy Hollow”, near the bottom of the world and
through the medium of the net we can be and remain connected in spirit.
craig
and see
To every underdog with a dream
Bryant McGill of SimpleReminders.com
http://www.simplereminders.com
for Bryant’s full message see https://www.facebook.com/bryantmcgill/
Best wishes from the First City to see the light
“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
inspire the world.”
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This is a very deep thought. “Even if it’s one person, uplifting that one” This is great.
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