Lisa's Little Lensography

As I said, I am an instrumental teacher. My profession is to teach guitar - classical, electric and bass - and in the course of my work I had produced a resource sharing website. Now guitarists are not very good at resources - they cling tenaciously to what they have, borrow secretly where they can. Truly!

The old joke about guitarists and light bulbs doesn't bear repeating! No? Well, maybe I will share it with you later! At least I thought this was a way of reducing the amount of paperwork I carry around with me and for some students it proved a useful resource. So I decided to inflict Guitarlincs on a global audience, knowing it was a very small fish as websites go but wanting to share anyway. Other guitar lenses would follow in time....

It really wasn't my intention to write about a lot of famous people, but hanging out in musical and literary circles often sets a hare or two running and when this happens, I like to follow it with a lens.

Yes, humour with a "u" because I am British except when I use html of course! If I review a book it will be featured here. I used to be a real bookworm as a child, but sadly poor vision and being busy with work have reduced my activities.

Now I am properly grown up and have reading glasses I often curl up with a good book as I did when I was a child and I shall share some here!

When I was little, I was once reprimanded for saying I preferred animals to people. Father Thomas, our Priest, spoke up for me and said "So did St Francis!"

Well, at age 7 I had never heard of St Francis, but he has since become a role model to me in life. Guess what? St Francis was right! We are stewards of this Earth and it is a place of beauty full of wonderful plants and creatures - and guess what too? These creatures all have brains and thoughts and feelings just like us! Isn't that something?

Everyday people, their problems, their triumphs! What else can be said? These lenses were made to help, to share and to gently raise awareness. We can celebrate the greatness we find in our special, talented friends!

I have lots of places to take you to over the next few weeks. These places are very special to me and I hope you will enjoy them. Perhaps I might even tempt you to see them for yourself!

I don't really like to write about me and I haven't given much thought to what makes me creative. It is what I do - nothing special - cats are cats, actors are actors, beetles are beetles and musicians and poets just are....

I know I am blessed, I know I should do more with my gifts but life gets in the way. Which takes me full circle! Why did I join Squidoo? To embrace a wider audience and perhaps in lifting others I may be lifted enough to Be myself a little more every day...

Thank you for listening!