A Tale of Two Cities

BooKs by cRaig loCk

Testing from my smart phone
The blog I was trying to press from http://www.onetaleoftwocities.wordpress.com didn’t appear on this blog… so here’s another one for you
Cape Town’s Deep South: It’s like coming home after…
Coming home
The Green, green grass of home (by Tom Jones)
https://www.facebook.com/CapeTownsDeepSouth/videos/1557454667601531/?t=0

see https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/cape-towns-deep-south-its-like-coming-home-after/
and
https://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31

Shared by “non-techno and not so smart(/i-pants)” c
enjoy

PPS
“Life is one long journey of learning, exploring (limits), discovering and dreaming.”

from a Google search (my “filing system to rescue me from sheer utter chaos” – thanks “Big G”)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=life+is+one+long+journey+craig+lock

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Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI

Just thinking of doing a book on this subject, as inspired by Alan Boss’s work
see
Books & Writing
and
TBI and Ways to Recover
1. Realization 1: Make a decision.
2. Realization 2: Rely on those around you.
3. Realization 3: Do what you know.
4. Realization 4: When All else fails, laugh.
5. Realization 5: Work on yourself.
6. Realization 6: Everyone is Different.

You can heal yourself. Start today.

The first line of my new book Memories (written by Casper, my “friendly ghost-writer”)below ???

Aged 15, Craig sustained a severe traumatic brain injury and a broken neck in a midget car racing accident in Cape Town, South Africa. He was in a coma for several weeks (he thinks) and the prognosis was extremely grim

Good idea (ie.helpful to others)…or NOT?
What do YOU think?

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Dawn-Being-Written-Unfolds/dp/1494359251
and

SHARE, SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE, UPLIFT and (perhaps even) INSPIRE

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Toto-Africa: “The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation.”

“The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation.”

Beautiful (+ powerful) words by Toto
(add to http://www.writeinthezone.wordpress.com (when you “get a mo”,c)

Shared by “totally unmusical” craig

https://onetaleoftwocities.wordpress.com/

“My aim is to put as many smiles on people’s faces (“dials”), as I possibly can.”

A Writer's Dream(s)

My aim is to put as many smiles on people’s faces (“dials”),as I possibly can.
Be happy
c
Sharing, supporting, informing, enlightening, “entertaining”(??), encouraging, empowering, enriching, challenging, igniting, uplifting (and perhaps even) inspiring

(enough there for now, c)

Psss
“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.”
http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com
and
https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/i-cant-do-much-about-all-the-suffering-in-the-world-but/

Shared by “totally unmusical” c

“Information and Inspiration Distributer, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder” *

* not bridges (thank goodness)!

Well my family and friends say I’m “safest” just writing and sharing

PPS

Best wishes from the First City to see the sun (in summer) …and we’re also the first to see the sunset and the stars (in winter-time)…
and a happy and safe Christmas to you…

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Auckland church leaders Christmas message

Sharing Some Thoughts on Jesus Christ

Auckland church leaders Christmas message: Christmas in the Rough
from https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12295276
and
https://www.facebook.com/Uplift-Encourage-and-Inspire-479972392393133
21 Dec, 2019 5:00am
7 minutes to read

The depth of emotions is magnified in the Christmas season. Photo / Michael Cunningham
NZ Herald

The Christmas season can be a great magnifier. While it magnifies what is good, it also magnifies the pain.

It’s been a tough and distressing year in Aotearoa New Zealand: the horrific terrorist shootings in March, the “once-in-a-hundred-year” storms, the ongoing fear of environmental changes and the recent eruption on Whakaari White Island.

Add to this the alienation and rejection many in our society feel because they are homeless or refugees. Some experience the dysfunction of relationships; others the pain of loneliness and an empty chair. The depth of such emotions is magnified in the Christmas season.

Yet Christmas is a time when we hear carols like Joy to the World. We pause…

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Each one of us can play the sweetest music…”

Craig's Quotes

“I see life’s amazing journey and the people with we come into contact as an orchestra*. and God, as conductor. If we choose to dream to join the “greatest’ orchestra. And each one one of us plays a different instrument in the sweet music of life. God works in and through people, all doing different things, but each one of us can play the sweetest music we possibly can.”

from

https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/gods-orchestra-i-see-lifes-amazing-journey-and-the-various-people-with-whom-we-come-into-contact-and-whose-lives-touch-us-and-the-ones-we-touch-as-an-orchestra-made-up-so/

“Reaching people from the end (bottom) of the world.”

and not from the world of your bottom, please!

https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/gods-orchestra-i-see-lifes-amazing-journey-and-the-various-people-with-whom-we-come-into-contact-and-whose-lives-touch-us-and-the-ones-we-touch-as-an-orchestra-made-up-so/

Shared by “totally unmusical” c

“Information and Inspiration Distributer, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder” *

* not bridges (thank goodness)!

Well my family and friends say I’m “safest” just writing and sharing
Still

Driven to share, uplift, encourage and (perhaps even) inspire

SHARE, INFORM, IMPACT, UPLIFT, IGNITE, ENCOURAGE and (perhaps even) INSPIRE

PPS
Best wishes from the First City to see…

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Editor’s Roundtable: Better Than Working for a Symphony Orchestra (Podcast)

“I see life’s amazing journey and the people with we come into contact as an orchestra*. and God, as conductor. If we choose to dream to join the “greatest’ orchestra. And each one one of us plays a different instrument in the sweet music of life. God works in and through people, all doing different things, but each one of us can play the sweetest music we possibly can.”

from

https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/gods-orchestra-i-see-lifes-amazing-journey-and-the-various-people-with-whom-we-come-into-contact-and-whose-lives-touch-us-and-the-ones-we-touch-as-an-orchestra-made-up-so/

“Reaching people from the end (bottom) of the world.”

and not from the world of your bottom, please!

Longreads

On our September 6, 2019 roundtable episode of the Longreads Podcast, Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they’ve been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week, the editors discuss stories in The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and the Kenyon Review.

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Subscribe and listen now everywhere you get your podcasts.

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4:35 Strike with the Band (Kate Wagner, September 1, 2019, The Baffler)

13:40 King of Pop (Willy Staley, August 29, 2019, TheNew York Times Magazine)

20:58 Twelve Words (Brian Trapp, Sept/Oct, 2019, Kenyon Review)

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Produced by Longreads and Charts & Leisure.

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Editor’s Roundtable: Better Than Working for a Symphony Orchestra (Podcast)

“I see life’s amazing journey and the people with we come into contact as an orchestra*. and God, as conductor. If we choose to dream to join the “greatest’ orchestra. And each one one of us plays a different instrument in the sweet music of life. God works in and through people, all doing different things, but each one of us can play the sweetest music we possibly can.”

from

https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/gods-orchestra-i-see-lifes-amazing-journey-and-the-various-people-with-whom-we-come-into-contact-and-whose-lives-touch-us-and-the-ones-we-touch-as-an-orchestra-made-up-so/

“Reaching people from the end (bottom) of the world.”

and not from the world of your bottom, please!

Pictures (great) by my old friend, John

JOHN'S PIX: Pictures (great) by my old friend John ("Jet")

my book has just been published at Amazon
Have to keep practising on the process.

Will do the paperback version + publish at https://www.kobo.com/ in a few days
Also see
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pictures+%28great%29+by+my+old+friend%2C+John+craig+lock&ref=nb_sb_noss

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=john+newton+photography+craig+lock&ref=nb_sb_noss
enjoy

Shared by “the world’s absolutely worst photographer”

picture from
http://www.capetownmypictures.wordpress.com
and
http://www.craiglockbooks.wordpress.com

from my “filing system…to rescue me from sheer utter chaos – thanks, “Big G”)

“Explore, dream, discover”

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So this is Christmas – John Lennon

My Thoughts

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/so-this-is-christmas-john-lennon/

via So this is Christmas – John Lennon A merry Christmas and safe holidays to you ALL + have fun

via So this is Christmas – John Lennon — BOOKS BY CRAIG LOCK

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