Shakespeare forever

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.


I should get Shakespeare up on my wall))) These words are like music to my ears. So beautiful and with stories that can still teach and touch hundreds of years after they were written.

O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

Tolkien

Today it was Tolkien's turn to come up on my wall of inspiration. He's there as a symbol of what a writer can be, because of his imagination and also because of what his Middle-earth means to me. The inspiration that lay inside his world.

Well, you know the drill about Tolkien and Middle-earth. He he, I am no longer 33 years... I am 34))) Last year was my hobbit birthday. This year is only a birthday;) The beginning of my 35th year)) Happy birthday to me... Cheers))

Jeanne d'Arc

This is the image that of Jeanne d'Arc that is going up on my wall.

It is sort of an image of the warrior priestess. She is in meditation, but still having the sword with her, beautifully mixing the two sides of Jeanne d'Arc. And thus symbolizing the two sides in me that I cherish: the spiritual side and the warrior side. The Warrior Priestess.

This image speaks to me, and when I will see it I will be remind about the silence that is necessary between battles. There will always be something to fight, maybe not always against, but there will always be one thing or the other. Today, I realized that I don't want to call anything a problem anymore. It is too negative and it can put the image of something that cannot be overcome. I want to think of them as challenges. I have many challenges ahead. So I will meet those challenges head on.

I feel rather joyful today. It is a good way to start my 35th year on this earth, feeling a hint of happiness and not so hopeless. I got a comment today that I looked more relaxed. And I do. I think there will be another glow over me. I am ready for life in the world, and I will make my journey the next months an enjoyable one. I actually feel happy!! Wow))) A wonderful feeling indeed))

The Wall

I have been thinking about what to do with my wall...



I tried writing: "I am a writer". But it doesn't look like I want it... I think I should try to draw something... I was thinking about maybe finding a picture of Shakespeare and use his image as a symbol...?



There was this list of influential women (both norwegian and historic and from all over the world), and of all on the list I chose Joanne d'Arc. I should find an image of her too... And I should think about why, I guess:) I think it is that she believed in something so strong that she would let nothing stop her. She should symbolize the will to do what you believe in and dream about.

And I should also put a sword there, representing my will.



So should really be Jeanne d'Arc with a sword in her hand then:)

And Shakespeare symbolizing the writer of good eternal stories...



And of course JRR Tolkien. Both as a writer but also as the symbol of using the enormous landscape of the imagination.



I should put up a picture of Gerry. Just because he inspires me;)



And I've already put up this picture, as a symbol of that mysterious space: