The places that scare us
I have been struggling a bit this past week with feelings of being overwhelmed and tired and that old black dog has been nipping at my heels. So, I thought I had better re-read… Continue reading
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Weekly Round-Up
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week.
The Healing Power of Poetry #WorldPoetryDay
Today is World Poetry Day. The late writer, AA Gill, once wrote of poetry: By some internal magic, poetry hovers above the page, over the words. It happens outside the black-and-white lines, as… Continue reading
How Stories Can Heal Our Wounded Places #WorldStorytellingDay
Perhaps it is because I come from an Irish tradition of the seanachai, the story-teller, that I hold the art of storytelling in such high esteem. In times past, neighbours gathered around the fire… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
Everything Is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere a progressive and cunning crimewith no witness to the tiny hiddentransgressions. To feel… Continue reading
An Irish Blessing For St Patrick’s Day
In honor of St Patrick’s Day today, I offer all my friends a blessing from the book Anam Cara – Spiritual Wisdom from a Celtic World by the wonderful Irish poet John O’Donohue. Beannacht, which is the title of… Continue reading
Mindful Monday
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this–some strengthening throb of amazement–some good sweet empathetic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that… Continue reading
Weekly Round-Up
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week.
When Mother’s Day Hurts
This weekend is Mother’s Day in Ireland and the UK. For the past few years I’ve written about Mother’s Day without my mother, but this year I hesitated to write about it. I don’t want to be… Continue reading
