Brisbane man stands down racist woman after being told dad should ‘go back to New Zealand’

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/spotlight/news/article.cfm?c_id=1504095&objectid=11682344

https://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31

https://breakdownbarriers.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/brisbane-man-stands-down-racist-woman-after-being-told-dad-should-go-back-to-new-zealand/

and

http://www.toleranceandrespect.wordpress.com

 

Well said!

 

PPS

“Whilst we can (and should) cherish and celebrate our ‘unique’ differences, let not our different beliefs divide us, but let the Spirit of our shared humanity be what defines and unites us as common inhabitants of our planet.”

from

 

https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/whilst-we-can-and-should-cherish-and-celebrate-our-unique-differences-let-not-our-different-beliefs-divide-us-but-let-the-spirit-of-our-shared-humanity-be-what-defines-a-3/

picture from http://www.mandelamadiba.wordpress.com

“This Tour has obviously taken place against the backdrop of terrible events in Nice and we pay our respects once again to those that lost their lives in this terrible event. Of course these events put sport into perspective, but they also show why the values of sport are so important to free society.”

On the Podium

https://sportforpeace.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/this-tour-has-obviously-taken-place-against-the-backdrop-of-terrible-events-in-nice-and-we-pay-our-respects-once-again-to-those-that-lost-their-lives-in-this-terrible-event-of-course-these-events-p/

“Together, one heart, one mind, one life, one small step at a time, let’s plant the seeds of a better and brighter future.”

picture from http://www.awritersdreams.wordpress.com

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Ayrton Senna “a true Champion of Champions”

Ayrton Senna: A Tribute to a Champion of Champions

Note with regard to the featured picture (above)

Every visitor to Morumbi cemetry in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the city that is birthplace of Ayrton Senna is greeted with the phrase:  ‘Nada pode me separar do amor de Deus.’ (Nothing can separate me from God’s love).

pictures from

https://www.facebook.com/AyrtonSenna.Formula1/?pnref=story

UK racing history on Facebook (fascinating posts…at least to “we fellow petrol-head fanatics”)

 

“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.”

– Ayrton Senna

from

https://beyondboundarieslimits.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/beyond-boundaries-ayrton-at-the-limit/

 and

https://ayrtonsennadasilva.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/beyond-boundaries-ayrton-at-the-limit/

 

Craig’s other blogs (WordPress) on his “passion”, motor racing (sadly not FI these days –“so boring”)

Some of Craig’s blogs on Formula 1 and motor racing (I’ll keep adding them , as I remember them)

http://www.ayrtonsennadasilva.wordpress.com

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Gilles Villeneuve: “A Pure Racer”

 

and

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSWC4izgYthH8UeR9AFXsxg

 

A Writing Thought: “I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and power-slid his blood-red Formula One Ferrari… with wild enthusiasm and a sense of abandonment, combined with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially that of the great Ayrton Senna, living on the razor-blade edge of life.”

from

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/craigs-thought/

https://raceinthezone.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/a-writing-thought-i-want-to-write-the-way-gilles-villeneuve-drove-and-power-slid-his-blood-red-formula-one-ferrari-with-wild-enthusiasm-and-a-sense-of-abandonment-combined-with-the/

and

http://www.writingandformula1.wordpress.com

PPS

“All the world will be happier and better, when the men and women have the souls of artists,, like that of an Ayrton Senna.“

– c (as inspired by Rodin’s famous words)

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

picture from http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com

and

http://www.awritersdreams.wordpress.com

Fair Play: “My son, I’m giving you the ball and naming you scrum-half for your team in the game of life. ..”

Source: Fair Play: “My son, I’m giving you the ball and naming you scrum-half for your team in the game of life. ..”

PPS

“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.”

 

 

Never ever give up!

Also see

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stmartinspress/20-brilliant-authors-whose-work-was-initially-reje-7rut

from

https://writeonwriting.wordpress.com/

 

A glimmer of hope for me then…

perhaps!  #

 

 

“If my mind can conceive it, my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

from

https://youcanbeachampion.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/if-my-mind-can-conceive-it-my-heart-can-believe-it-then-i-can-achieve-it/

# PPS

Yippee! I see a light at the end of the tunnel.

“No, it’s just another idiot with a torch, craig”

Beyond the Zone: Formula 1 and Writing

Beyond the Zone: God and The Spiritual Journey

Have just written the first line in a brand new book ‘In The Zone and Beyond…’

“Rough petrol-head meets arty farty, airey-fairey creative writing type”

My idea of heaven is sitting in the hot New Zealand sun (in summer at least) writing about Formula 1 (the far better days of old) and writing…and thoughts on God (and “the spiritual journey”), of course!

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

from

https://www.amazon.com/God-Racing-Writing-spiritual-experience-ebook

“I want to write with a sense of wild abandonment ‘power-sliding through life’”

“I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and power-slid his blood-red Formula One Ferrari… with wild enthusiasm and a sense of abandonment, combined with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially that of the great Ayrton Senna, living on the razor-blade edge of life.”

from

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/craigs-thought/

and

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/i-want-to-write-with-a-sense-of-wild-abandonment-power-sliding-through-life/

picture above…

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“We cannot change the cards we are dealt (in life), just how we play the hand.”

Craig's Quotes

― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

see

from

http://www.inspiringvideo.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.”

Pictures (great) by my friend, Jenny, whose photographic talents I definitely do NOT possess!

from

www.jennysphotographicjourney.wordpress.com

www.onetaleoftwocities.wordpress.com

www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com

www.shatteredbrokendreams.wordpress.com

www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com

www.climbingmountainsandchasingdreams.wordpress.com

and

www.awritersdreams.wordpress.com

PPS

Best wishes from the First City to see the light each new day

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The Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”

http://www.beyondthezonspirit.wordpress.com

BooKs by cRaig loCk

Source: The Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”

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