There’s an excitement in sitting down to write, not knowing what’s going to spill out. It’s Good Friday and I see no better day for sharing a Recoleta Cemetery photograph of a crucifix.
For ideas, I pulled out a few titles from my book cupboard, from Peter Pan to Kahlil Gibran and my childhood Bible (got that from Mrs Morphew’s Searchers’ Club when I was 10 for learning all the books of the Bible… just had a quick go and I’m pleased to report I can still reel off from Genesis to Nehemiah).
But it’s Light Up Your Life by Diana Cooper, one of the first self-help books I read, around my 30th birthday, that’s drawing me. This sentence, highlighted in pen, grabbed my attention (unlike me not to use pencil – it must have felt important):
“The energy of expectation is stronger than that of desire, which is why we get what we inwardly expect to happen and not what we want to happen.”
So true. If you’ve never thought about it (and I hadn’t till then), I recommend looking at the relationship between what you believe and what you attract. One example: as a freelancer, I’ve always expected to get work and it has always come my way. Recently I listened to some super-inspirational talks and am now eager to unearth the limiting beliefs that are scuppering other areas of my life. What’s great is that if you know you’ve created what you have, you hold the power to improve things.
Recoleta Cemetery is another case in point: I expect to find magic there, to see Bright lights & angels, and usually I do.
I was born in Montreal in 1967, grew up in England and live between London and Buenos Aires. Like many, I came to Buenos Aires to dance tango and fell under the spell of this city where strangers talk to you, tango music seeps on to the streets and the ornate crumbling buildings speak of grander times. I love writing and crafting words – I've worked as a sub-editor for more than 20 years – and taking photographs.