Dream a little dream ..

I love a good landmark.

Not that I drive with any measure of uncertainty but I do like to know precisely where I am going and I do like to  absolutely be in the right lane – or the left -  should it so happen.
I like to plan!

 

 

 

I am not particularly fond of GPS either. 
I’m not really sure why. I’m just not.

Admittedly, I am not that quick with left or right - that is without taking my hands off the wheel!

I used to look at my beautiful locket ring.
But I lost it.
About the time I lost my way. Prior to that I always thought I knew what was right.

I started thinking about landmarks while driving along the Beach Road to the pool of the morning.
There’s a lovely old sandstone building with a bell tower and a flag at Albert Park.
I don’t know what the building is but I do know it’s my landmark.

It’s my without taking your hands off the wheel you must absolutely turn left here right now!
And I can see it from miles away.

It stands tall.

I researched the word landmark. There is an abundance of different meanings.

But the one I loved the most was this.

Originally, a 'landmark' literally meant a geographic feature used by explorers and others to find their way back.

There are times when we all need to find our way back.

And it’s easy to feel a little directionless.

In the last few months I have been battling through a book. Recommended to me.

The battle hasn’t been not relishing the story.

The challenge has been to not let my mind wander as to why I am reading this book in the first place.

In the first few pages there is a line where one of the main characters as a young boy ponders what he will do throughout his life.

And his thoughts are 'whatever is right’.

It jumped out at me immediately.

Because it is amazing how invariably what is right can change so quickly from what was right then to what is right now.

For you.

My favourite song of the minute is Carry On by Fun!

Cause we are we are shining stars
We are invincible we are who we are
On our darkest day when we're miles away
So we'll come we will find our way home.

This week all around Australia Year 12’s are completing their final weeks of schooling. Countless numbers of Valedictory and Farewell speeches are being written and read. I know this because in between gazing out of my office window I have been editing and proof reading several of them.

 

As a small aside - gazing out of my window there stands another lovely landmark.

It is a magnificent oil palm, reminiscent of the hundreds that can be seen from the air on approach to Honolulu International Airport.
But here there is only one.
And as no other office has the perspective that I do, I kind of sentimentally think of it as my own!
I have even gone so far as to stick a hula girl decal on my window to create a 3D effect!

I know .. the Principessa thinks I’m tragic too .. but I prefer the word imaginative!

In fact I am going to take a photo of it right now so you can see! Imaginative? I'm sure you'll agree!

But - finding my way back..

I think if it were up to me to write and deliver a valedictory speech it would be very short and sweet.

It would go something like this ..

It is perfectly fine to be a dreamer.
To hold a dream in your heart.
But it is equally important to have a landmark.

So that if you lose your way you will always know that there is something still there - to guide you back.
Something or someone to help you find your way back.

But. There may well be times when you will need to hold your head high, stand tall – and be your very own landmark.

To do whatever is right.

With what is left.

For you.

And bring yourself home.

Only one week until the Melbourne Cup!
And for the past 2 years I have studied hard and backed the winner.
Even posted it on Facebook to share the love!

And while my heart still says Dunaden, I am thinking that Mount Athos is starting to look like a very good landmark.

And who could possibly resist the Lights of Heaven!

"May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground - Carry on!"