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- Traveling to Anglesey
Yesterday I woke up in a holiday cottage in Anglesey, Wales.
The trip from Westbury took 3 hours by car through the scenic landscape of Snowdonia with it’s tall mountains and tiny villages. Then it spit us out on the island of Angelsey, which is rather flat and reminds a bit of Denmark.
Photo by Mitchell Orr on Unsplash
We will be here for a week, planning on exploring the coastline through long walks.
Over the last days the UK has celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The atmosphere has been lovely - street parties everywhere, people coming together. The opulent celebrations in London have been televiesed, and it’s been quite the sight. Today is the last day with a huge parade, and as the weather is rather bleak today we might let us entertain by that.
It made me think yesterday what enormous legacy some people leave behind.
Every day they get up, fuelled by a desire to serve their country, or to make the world a better or different place.
Whereas I get up mostly to fulfill obligations - obligations as an employee, or a freelancer, or a writer with a tiny audience. Is any of this changing the world? Maybe it is, and we only have a hard time seeing the many ways in which we make a difference for someone else.
Your, or my, legacy does not have to be huge - legendary even.
It might only touch a handful of people.
Still I believe it’s possible to leave a mark on the world. When you think back of all the people you have known, that have left earth, did they set a mark? Did they leave memories behind in your world, that you cherish?
I’m sure they did.
And so I believe that any one of us will too.
xo, Yvonne
🖊️ This week's publications
📖 Currently reading
«The Magician King» by Lev Grossmann
This is part 2 of the Magician trilogy. And I’m enthralled.
The story shifts between the magical land of Fillory and being on Earth. I’m excited about Grossmann’s descriptions of the difference of doing magic on Earth and existing in a magical land. I have been pondering a lot about how this relates to our own lifes, and if this actually also is a point of view.
Are you stuck in Doing, having to work hard to make things work out or change. Or do you experience the world as a magical place where anything is possible, you just have to activate your ancient knowings?
It’s an interesting topic which I will explore further.