And my favourite writer and my favourite dreamer and my favourite everything.
He was true. The truest of the true. If True were a land, he would rule it as King.
(Only, I would pick Papa to be King first.
And then J.M.Barrie.
And then Stephen Fry.)
Lately, I am forever reading this paragraph and all his writings about the War. On Thursday evening there were lots of soldiers on my train home from London.
When there are soldiers riding with you on your train, you feel extremely small.
It made me wish I were brave.
Bravery isn't something I can hold inside myself very well.
Sometimes I want to be a Lyra and I want it and want it, incredibly badly.
Sometimes I want to be a Lyra and I want it and want it, incredibly badly.
But you can't be brave just from wanting.
It's an impossibility. Like snow in July.
88 comments:
oh, pretty girl, what book is that from? what is the title so i can track myself down a copy?
Oh wow. It does make you wonder, doesn't it? about war and peace and ghosts and death.
I shall track down J.M Barrie's journals now...
When I was in Korea I would constantly run into soldiers or soldiers in training since military service is mandatory for all men. It make me feel weird inside, scared too. It made me feel slightly unsafe and it made me think about war and how it effects people a lot.
Lovely entry. Thank you and have a nice day!
p.s. Stephen Fry! <3
I cried just then, because I'm not brave.
I'm smaller than an atom and I fuse with the other atoms for comfort and a hiding-place.
I wish I could be as brave as I sometimes pretend I am.
Hope that your day was wonderful, and your twitter comment to me made me smile when I thought it impossible. So snow may perhaps fall in July. Thank you thank you thank you. xx
Believe that snow can fall in July...
It is my birth month, and I dearly love the snow.
Maybe?
<3
you are the most inspiring beautiful person in the galaxy.
i wish i too were as brave.
& wanting does nothing but spoil our actions.
you're insanely correct.
Such beautiful words in a breath takingly wonderful blog!!
I will wish on a star that it snows next July. It is my birthday then, so maybe my wish will come true. If it does not, cut out pretty snow flakes from paper and pretend.
And then believe.
Your post has brightened my day with its inspiring words and I long to hear what you have to say next!!
x
i am addicted to your words x
love from bee x
It is always snowing in July somewhere. It snowed up here in May last year, enough for a proper snowball fight and everything.
I think I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I shall always be scared, but if I keep my stubborn little head down and just plow onward reguardless, working and focussing on whatever bit needs doing next, then that is all the brave I really need to be for myself xx
Ps; How much do houses cost in True?
Oh how lovely True would be, especially if your father ((or everybody's father)) were king, then J.M Barrie.
I too love J.M Barrie, I liked him even before I knew he wrote the story of Pan. Did you read 'The Admirable Crichton' ? I found it in my grandmother's pile of books, and read it, and loved him. <3
You are truly amazing.
And the paragraph you posted...I was speechless!
Thank you so much for being one of the most inspiring people that i know. Or rather wish that I knew.
And yes, I dream all the time that I can be like Lyra.
-Lenore
but I now just remembered...
Strength is something you choose. Bravery is in all of us, we just have to find it. It may be hard, but there is always light at the end of the darkest tunnel.
maybe, just maybe...it will snow in July <3
-Lenore <3
ps. you are very right though, it cannot just come from wanting.
I'm really not sure if I'm making any sense at all though...I never make any sense
What a gorgeous post, dear.
I'be always been fascinated by the war (i mean WW II) and i've read lots and lots of books about it and saw almost all the movies about the theme.
Have you seen 'Band of Brothers'? It's amazing, the best series i've ever seen i guess.
I LOVE every single post of yours...
Mila.
thank you for the glittering genuine bits of magic that is this site. i cannot help but feel connected to you if only for your love of all things jm barrie. this is my favourite place now. thank you for the pretty & broken thoughts & for the reminder to breath deeply, to feel deeply. wishing you a day filled with wonderment & secret smiles.
i've come across your blog from pia...and iam swooning still...officially in love big time with your blog :) words so beautiful, pictures oh so whimsical...i've arrived in wonderland!!!!
Bravery exists within us in and it manifests itself in unexpected places. Beautiful blog and beautiful words.
This is wonderful. I absolutely love your blog.
And I wish and wish that I were braver too.
xo
angela
OH my gosh, I love your blog so much, it makes me want to fall asleep in a big, pink, fluffy clod! :)
p.s. I tagged you! go to my blog to learn more!
amazing.....
i just found your blog, and i love it love it love it love it, i cannot express my love in words
but the font is so pale on my computer screen i can barely read it
please can this be changed, if it is not just me who has this problem
that paragraph was beautiful :) really, really amazing. thank you
this is wonderful, but i dont have the words to describe how wonderful...such amazing words
Ive given you an award on my blog dear. Go see!
Sometimes i wish we could all have a little bravery. We could store it up in bottles and let it out when we needed it.
Like the BFG and his dreams.
Beautiful
that passage was so beautiful...wow.
I love your blog and photo's. Is your life really this pretty?
Links swap?
are the words you speak just as melodious? i wonder if i can write like you. please keep posting.
you have the MOST beautiful blog i have seen ...not only in terms of picture, but content wise too. it's like a dream..hazy, foggy, beautiful...
please keep writing...i have bookmarked you as my current muse and will keep coming back...thank you for spreading such sunshine in the blog world..
I just found your blog :)
I love it
It's so inspiring!
please write more
i absolutely adore your writing style!
i've only discovered this bit of virtual treasure today
please don't stop writing.
I wonder, what is this blog for? It is beautiful, simple, and elegant. I love it and plan to follow it, or perhaps one like it. But please, what is its meaning?
i need another of your posts soon.
i like that quote...it gets you thinking...
xoxo,
Micaela
such a beautiful post, the quote is outdtanding and very inspiring
what a lovely place you have here....
That's what I felt when I first read "Johnny got his gun"!
Turn the world over and the snow will fall in July. In Australia it does.
I recently found your blog and I am in love with it. please do not quit writing. your blog pushed my imagination, made me rekindle my childhood, and i must read more blogs of yours.
I have given your blog an award!! Check out my blog to see it=)
Have a wonderful day!!!!
xoxo,
Micaela
I hope you come back to posting soon! I have tagged your blog! Take a peek at my blog to see. Have a wonderful holiday!
~Michelle
But you are brave... the princesses are always the brave ones; to gather up the ghosts and the fallen and ride home with them, to find words through the thorns that make us see, that is a mighty brave thing indeed...
Siobhan
please update!
this blog is my favourite, and I visit it every day in hope that there will be something new :)
especially now that it's christmas. it would be great to see some christmas photos :)
ahhh. i love your writing. the way you phrase things is so...i don't know...so dream-like. it makes me feel like im in fairyland.
xoxo,
Micaela
I love your faerietales...
this is a beautiful site.
Merry Merry Christmas to you. Joy, laughter, happiness for you in 2009.
Helenna x
hello, love
you seem not to have even been on here in quite a long time
but i miss talking to you, i really do.
if you ever feel like it, i would love it if you sent me an email
bonescollide@hotmail.com
other than that, i love you and your posts and your art, and i miss you
xo
nora
(the dragon!)
<3
please come back!! i love your blog!!!isabella
Excellent!!!
Happy New Year...
Where have you gone?
This is one of the most dreamy blog Ive ever see.....
your site is so pretty!
i also adore J.M. Barrie
COME BAAACK!
We all miss your beautiful posts.
xoxo!
so pretty. i love your poems on your blog. adore this :)
www.balmainbazaar.blogspot.com
link?
Please post more. We all adore you very much
:(
where are you joanna? it's so lonely without your posts.
Your blog makes me feel...floaty. And also quite stupid for saying such a thing. I especially love the literary references.
everything is so beautiful...
you have an amazing blog..
please keep posting. i'm dearly in love with your blog, your excellent words and deligtful pictures.
This is such an amazing quote. Thank you for sharing it, dear! I am so inspired to read more.
x
Jess.
i adore your blog, please update soon!
<3
Your words are amazing.
I wish I was able to express my feelings like you. :)
Keep it up!
Where did you find the "The Little Princess" pictures?
Lovely blog :)
Beautiful :')
why do you not write anymore?
I found my way to you from Nectar and Light and was instantly enamoured because of your amazing blog banner. How could I not love a blogger who would crown J.M. Barrie king? I just had to say, "Hello, friend."
You might just be my new favorite blog. Interested in swapping links? :)
UPDATE! ...please!
Glad to see you're back.
so lovely.
Your blog is such a beautiful collection of adventure and magic to sift through!! =]
xxxx
Oh you posted again! At least to leave another lovely image. I so look forward to all.
Your blog is wonderful.
What a pleasant surprise to see a new post from you today! A friend sent me your blog a couple of months ago and it has been sitting silently at the bottom of my active blogroll ever since. Your photos have a mystery that enchants. You are talented.
this is more a comment for your latest entry. for some reason i couldn't comment, or you just have it that way :)
your blog is such an extreme delight and your photos are just heavenly. i love coming onto your little place here and finding new delights...
andrea ♥
iLOVE YOUR blog, so escapist and romantic.
you have such a beautiful blog!
xxx
your blog is outrageous.
i've given you an award!
You have been nominee.... :)
Your blog is very pretty and magical....
It deserves an award....
See you...
Your blog is beautiful times 12786932.
Mind if I link you on my blog?
<3 the girl.
Don't fret. It's not impossible. It snowed last July in the tropical country where I'm from.
--Lyra
The photos are really fantastic!
The first pic is.. WOW!
Your blog is really nice!!
I will give, if you don't mind, a few details about the quote. It is not an extract of one of JMB's notebooks (rather than diaries), but a letter to E. Lucas. (20/02/1918)
where i live, it snows it july.
in*
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