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Or, walking a mile in someone else's shoes. The problem of truly understanding somebody else has been discussed in extenso. Going through the motions oneself makes one feel the pain.
"He'll be coming and going," he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."
— C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
I am still coming to terms with this most spiritual of gifts from my son. It's our connection to Narnia and Aslan, and so it's really beyond words.
“What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands” -C. S. Lewis
You have a traitor there, Aslan," said [Jadis] the [White} Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.
[about Jadis, the White Witch in C.S. Lewis', The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]
Millennium Hill which is one of the hills that is local on the Malvern Hills ridge which runs along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.
The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel, and the cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.
The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning "Bare-Hill", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn (bald hill). It has been known as Malferna (11th century), Malverne (12th century), and Much Malvern (16–17th century). They are known for their spring water – initially made famous by the region's many holy wells, and later through the development of the 19th century spa town of Great Malvern, a process which culminated in the production of the modern bottled Malvern Water.
Flint axes, arrowheads, and flakes found in the area are attributed to early Bronze Age settlers, and the 'Shire Ditch', a late Bronze Age boundary earthwork possibly dating from around 1000 BC, was constructed along part of the crest of the hills near the site of later settlements. The Wyche Cutting, a mountain pass through the hills was in use in prehistoric times as part of the salt route from Droitwich to South Wales. A 19th century discovery of over two hundred metal money bars suggests that the area had been inhabited by the La Tène people around 250 BC. Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.
J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was introduced to the area by C. S. Lewis, who had brought him here to meet George Sayer, the Head of English at Malvern College. Sayer had been a student of Lewis, and became his biographer, and together with them Tolkien would walk the Malvern Hills. Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.
My NoNo YesYes Altered Book...CatchPhrase #25/26 Collaged layers of acrylics, stamps, paper. I love the C.S. Lewis quote! It worked perfectly for this prompt - Postcard
I have always loved the works and words of C.S. Lewis...
Theme: Power In Words
Year Thirteen Of My 365 Project
Had a little fun creating this one over an early breakfast in the van this morning, it’s a shot I took yesterday with the iPhone of a beautiful tree situated on the way from Great Malvern (above the 99 steps)! just up from St. Ann’s Well (1813), towards the Worcester Beacon. I’ve blended this together with a photo I took of a dinosaur eye taken at the Natural History Museum in London, also with the iPhone. It’s a nod towards C.S. Lewis as we had just seen a sign saying he’d visited Great Malvern and found some inspiration for his works here.
Both photos were taken handheld and then subsequently edited using Snapseed, all on the iPhone.
The title is taken from C.S. Lewis too, :-
A Reflective Abstract. If you would like to see a clip of the film of C.S. Lewis' life, please visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=shevrKTXGI4
this is another creativity hangout for me in a C. S. Lewis "Spare Oom" kind of way. These are the things in this room corner that bring me instant inklings: the glass lamp Glenn gave me, a couple of millefiori paperweights, a Tibetan singing bowl, Mary Oliver's poetry... and the light on the other side, which so many people see as a reflection - it's not, it's a door to where my characters are born and live on. All I have to do is see and step in. I love this corner!
C.S. Lewis, author of the Narnia series would have known this little foot-passage well, and it does have certain elements that are perhaps reflected in his books
It is known he gave readings in St. Mary's (hidden by the shrubbery on the left) and would have exited by its west door into this alley. Directly opposite is an ornately carved door depicting a lion's head and mane, and the door-hood is supported on fanciful brackets of gilded fawns, perhaps the models for Mr Tumnus. (Here just visible in the gloom.)
And also here is the iconic solitary lamp post, (although those crossing Marston water-meadows feel more in keeping with the books - see an old image of mine in the comments box).
Smile on Saturday: Full of Memories
Reading the Narnia books (by C.S. Lewis) under the blankets by torchlight with my Teddy.
Reading the same books to my boys when they were young ... sometimes while they had a bath💧😀
The solitary lampost in St Mary's Passage in the heart of Oxford is usually credited for being the inspiration of C.S. Lewis in his Narnia books (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe being the first in the series...I could never quite get on with them as a child), but surely these are more fitting.
They form a rather surreal line across the empty Cherwell meadows, known here as the Marston Meadows, lighting a cycleway between the university and the suburb of Marston and would have been well known to Lewis.
Perhaps the one in St Mary's Passage gets the credit as it is firmly on the tourist trail and handy for photographs.
Or did he really need a real-life one to spark his imagination?; all sorts of random nonsense fly about in my brain, much to my very practical other half's bemusement.
"I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
~ C.S. Lewis
(inspired in June 2016 by a paragraph from a C.S. Lewis novel; used Firestorm photo tools and post-processed in two easy image manipulation apps for iPad)
All Joy reminds. It is never a possession; always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'.
[C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life]
Just a little table near someone's front door as we turned a corner in Burano. I loved the surprise and was taken to many memories.
Burano, the Venetian Lagoon, Venice, Italy
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Also known as the Aslan Door. Its design is said to have provided C.S. Lewis with inspiration for various elements in ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’.
Apparently the engraved fauns are reminiscent of Mr. Tumnus. and the nearby gas lamppost is similar to the one outside the entrance to Narnia.
A tutor and fellow of Magdalen College, Lewis would have often passed by the door.
Today's quote is from CS Lewis and is so true. It is easy to stop dreaming as we get older and/or just give up on our dreams. Sweet dreams for today.
*Working Towards a Better World
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! -
Bob Marley
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. -
C. S. Lewis
The best road to progress is freedom's road. -
John F. Kennedy
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - Buddha
You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one. - Bob Parsons
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️
"I heard in Addison's Walk a bird sing clear:
This year the summer will come true. This year. This year.
Winds will not strip the blossom from the apple trees
This year nor want of rain destroy the peas.
This year time's nature will no more defeat you.
Nor all the promised moments in their passing cheat you.
This time they will not lead you round and back
To Autumn, one year older by the well worn track.
This year, this year, as all those flowers foretell,
We shall escape the circle and undo the spell.
Often deceived, yet once again open your heart.
Quick, quick, quick, quick, the gates are drawn apart."
(C.S. Lewis)
My favourite spot in Oxford (up there with my other favourite of course. :p) This is the beautiful Addison's Walk that follows the river, on the grounds of Magdalen College. (Aren't they lucky!) C.S. Lewis converted to Christianity after a long conversation while walking this path with Tolkien and Hugo Dyson.
The Clough more Stone.
In a letter to his brother, C S Lewis confided explicitly: 'That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.'
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau “Set your sight on a heavenly azimuth.” ~ Me
“Really, what profit is there for you to gain the whole world and lose yourself in the process?” ~ Jesus (Mark 8: 36)
“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure that is hidden in a field. A crafty man found the treasure buried there and buried it again so no one would know where it was. Thrilled, he went off and sold everything he had, and then he came back and bought the field with the hidden treasure part of the bargain.
Or the kingdom of heaven is like a jeweler on the lookout for the finest pearls. When he found a pearl more beautiful and valuable than any jewel he had ever seen, the jeweler sold all he had and bought that pearl, his pearl of great price.” ~ Jesus (Matthew 13: 44-46)
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” ~ C.S. Lewis
For years my daughter has fostered dogs and cats, finding homes for pets. Now she aspires to create an open environment for potential pets and owners in Los Angles.
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Music and people pictures from Cambodian mission trip, Korea & Virginia; Sidewalk Prophets - "Sisters and Brothers" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCYVfFiSx68&feature=youtu.be
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, US
British Camp an Iron Age hill fort located at the top of Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.
The British Camp is composed of extensive earthworks that have been compared to a giant wedding cake. Midsummer Hillfort is a mile south of the British Camp. There are a number of generally round hut platforms on the British Camp, which may well suggest a permanent occupation. However it is unusual to have two major hillforts within such a short distance. The diarist John Evelyn remarked that the view from the hill was "one of the godliest vistas in England".
The ditch and counterscarp bank around the entire site covers three hills, although those to north and south are little more than spurs. With a perimeter of 6,800 feet (2,100 m), the defences enclose an area of around 44 acres. The first earthworks were around the base of the central hill otherwise known as the citadel. At least four pre-historic phases of building have so far been identified. Original gates appear to have existed to east, west and north-east.
There is no evidence about whether the coming of the Romans ended the prehistoric use of the British Camp, but folklore states that the ancient British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand here. This is unlikely, according to the description of the Roman historian Tacitus who implies a site closer to the river Severn. Excavation at Midsummer Hill fort, Bredon Hill and Croft Ambrey all show evidence of violent destruction around 48 AD. This may suggest that the British Camp was abandoned or destroyed around the same time.
Medieval castles were sometimes built within earlier sites, reusing the earthworks of Iron Age hill forts for instance as was the case at British Camp. A ringwork and bailey castle, known as Colwall Castle as well as The Herefordshire Beacon, was built within the Iron Age hill fort, probably in the ten years immediately before 1066. Quite possibly the builder was Earl Harold Godwinson, the future King Harold II of England. Earl Harold is recorded as building another fortress in the county at Longtown Castle. The castle would appear to have been refortified during The Anarchy of the reign of King Stephen. Before 1148 the fortress was held by Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester. The castle appears to have changed hands again in 1151 and 1153 when attacked by royalists. At this time it was defended by the men of Earl Waleran's brother, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. The castle was finally destroyed by King Henry II in 1155 and mentioned in passing by William Langland before 1386.
A popular legend tells that Caractacus, a British tribal chieftain, fought his last battle against the Romans at the British Camp and goes on to say that after his capture he was taken to Rome where he was given a villa and a pension by Emperor Claudius.
One of my favorite places and one of my favorite quotes :) I was just experimenting with this, but once I finished I thought it deserved an upload. I miss uploading (and photography in general) so much it's crazy.
I've always been really inspired Ashley's amazing typography.. you should definitely check it out if you never have.
I'm thinking about changing my screen name to my real name in the somewhat near future.. we'll see.
"He [God] has balanced the love of change in them by a love of permanence... by the union of change and permanence which we call rhythm. He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same..."
-C. S. Lewis
Every year is a cycle of familiar yet constant change.