And into the 2018 Football World Cup Final, in Mother Russia, Les Bleus now head.

Another one from a defender!

I said to those in hearing proximity after the massive Belgium Quarter-Final victory over Brazil, that as significant as this victory was in their reckoning, it was not the Final, and it better not be their performance finale.

Of course, everyone knows this, but it is not so translatable when you knock-out the favourites.

While it is mandatory to say the right words, our deep-stated psyche very easily betrays such sentiment for the reality we grasp with more compelling force. It’s as if the moment barges through our conscientious resistance.

My mind went to this same Quarter-Final spot in another sporting tournament, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, where Le Frog would cause the boil-over, and gut the All Blacks. You can describe the 2011 and 2015 events as national therapy. Even watching the 2011 event live at Eden, the vibe was equally similar, once the home side belted the Wallabies out in the Semi.

It is almost like sporting relief. The Final would be sporting torment. Then it was over. Double relief. After the euphoria.

And now for their special contribution to this 2018 event, Belgium await the proverbial, kissing of their sister prize, in the 3rd/4th playoff. I mean, does anyone really want this fixture?!

As I take the conceptual bend, the above digits of Griezmann would speak not only about this present sporting journey in Russia, but representatively, about the life.

If you have watched any sporting coverage out of France, you know they are good for the creative angle. I took the opportunity, and scored my own, as I watched the coverage from the other side of the globe.

Real Hope – not a Football, even Soccer side – believes the future, not only, can be Final, but in fact, will be. And in the words of Keller, “What we believe about the future is one of the best predictions for how we act today.” That future trophy is a present gift that keeps on giving.

And if our hearts become ever increasingly tattoo’d with this future truth, our today will become living proof.

The life connects and intersects.

This is.

McCawesomeness

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Do love me some Le Tour via the Moving Picture provider.

It is like having your very own guided trip round France and its environs, from the back of a motorcycle, or out of a helicopter. Coverage is most excellent, even if the timezone is not, into Nouvelle Zélande

It can even translate into something a little bit special. Like the image below, which I snapped when the satellite went eclectic, and the pixels went into hyperdrive.

Love it. It has that Je ne sais quoi about it.

Art Masquerading As Media, indeed!

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[Mc-Cawe-some-ness]

Noun

Meaning – It seems appropriate to explain the concept behind this personally-created term. It is fair to say the credit is due, reflective of my own new media excursions. And, after all, it has proven enough to adorn this web portal over the long haul.

The concept reflects the all-round exceptional attributes of the now-retired All Blacks Captain and Legend, Richard (Richie) Hugh McCaw, whose on-the-field play over his glittering 148 Rugby Test career nearly sets him entirely apart from the rest.

He would retire after raising the William Webb Ellis trophy in back-to-back Rugby World Cups in 2011 and 2015, captaining and leading from the front in both. This is an amazing feat on its own terms, but when you consider the national side’s record at this event, post the success of 1987, and especially 2007, when he would learn many painful lessons leading the side, his mammoth effort only grows.

This is an ode to that time and his place. Legendary.

Therefore, this term is anything that arouses, Awesomeness, or expresses that flourishing location, thereof, and especially when anchored through any afflictions of suffering, trial, trepidation, or challenge.

Welcome Back,

Is this a return of another King?

Not so fast on the draw. Anyway, I am writing with words. We-meaning-me will get there.

Below is precious Lancaster Park, Christchurch, New Zealand, post the quaking of the Earth in 2011, and probably recorded some time in 2018. Credit to Aotearoa’s Sky Sports.

The grainy quality of the image, the real functional displacement of recreational activities because of the locational transformation therein, with the paradoxical beauty-in-sadness, all speak into the ardent pursuit of the life under the Sun.

And this present journey.

It has been some five-and-a-half years since I have posted anything on McCawesomeness.

Since that time this site has been resting on the Fixer’s server awaiting a future today.

Over this period I have written much. Copious forms and combinations of words, which may not surprise, if you have read me over the years. But, without saying-let-alone-anything on what is most likely my favourite self-designed platform, in my historic media repertoire.

Hard to quantify where time has flown.

Please don’t bother if the styles do not acquire your taste. This suit may not fit. Both conclusions are copacetic. After all, this is an example of my art being let free to breathe.

Now that I am back, is this return more situationally specific? What does the future hold on this platform?

I am not exactly sure, but I hope it will become an Artifact to the Flourishing of Awesomeness. And I am going Star Spangled Banner with the first italicised word, which also just happens to be the part of subtitle for this site. Providential inclusion, no doubt.

I hope any future pleasure will prove to be mine, even as I believe what has been, can speak into another’s time and place, which may be enough to justify this mediatorial resuscitation.

That is enough for now.

McCawesomeness!

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If we only view the worth of our on-line work as being directly related to the dollars and cents it acquires or the personal satisfaction of our moment, what will give it worth when the money runs out and when our time expires? Seek to produce work that builds a legacy, echoes into the future, where people want to push repeat because it is perpetually worth their while!

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