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Memories – life’s living motion picture
Memories are a delicate, transient and evolving tapestry of notions, desires and fabrications of an imagined past. And this is what makes us so beautiful. So it seems that romance is the human response to valuing a life of moments. Continue reading
Posted in January 2012
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Fear
If the wind blows too hard and you’re heading straight for rocks, sometimes the best thing you can do, is let everything go. The boat will eventually ride itself head to wind. You may even have to let the current drift you slowly so that even if you crash, at least you’re finally grounded. Continue reading
Posted in November 2011
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Music to our ears
The craft of musicianship in Ireland is regularly treated with a divinity that is infiltrated with an air of secrecy and initiation. This is not only an injustice to the masses it is an insult to the realm itself. Music is only as valuable as when it is shared and appreciated by all. In the words of Shinichi Suzuki – “Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”
I think I could very comfortably live in an Ireland like that. Continue reading
Posted in October 2011
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The Black Sheep Effect
A black sheep is still a part of the flock – but apart nonetheless. Like the resentful drunken grand-aunt that no-one wants to risk inviting to their wedding, Éire has become a hapless scapegoat for the European banquet. Continue reading
Posted in April 2011
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Bottom to top, outside in, front to back
The leader serves, the warrior protects, the farmer nourishes, the artisan celebrates and the parent nurtures. And all wait in grateful anxiety for the coming of hope – the child – who can undo the wrong and make right what is. Continue reading
Posted in March 2011
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Professional assassination
BODY OF EMAIL Notice to colleagues in relation to current project status Dear All, Effectively I have found it extremely beneficial currently to incorporate strategic tactics in consideration of assessing the targets in relation to internal project operations. Whilst one … Continue reading
Posted in January 2011
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Beauty and pain – the light switch effect
Every rainbow is preceded by a cloud or a storm. The cloud, darkens our day with the ominous promise of some form of inconvenient precipitation. The storm, a powerful force that gives life to its tangibility. But the rainbow, so delicately visual, so utterly unreachable, so rare a delight – it injects such an unexpected burst of joy inside us. Continue reading
Posted in December 2010
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Language
Words are very meagre instruments of communication although we use them everyday of our lives. But how well do we truly understand what we vocalise? It would be a resounding leap of faith for the human race to acknowledge the ability to transmit information through thoughts and feelings without the use of the five classical senses which conventional science quite openly rejects.
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Posted in November 2010
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The Undo Button
If at that point, you’ve hit a brick wall – just enrol in a course with a teacher who will show you the basic shortcuts and foundations on how to apply to software or; phone a friend, and cry. Continue reading
Posted in October 2010
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Relationships
Margaret Thatcher, once said in an interview with Woman’s Own Magazine, which has been described as an epitaph for the eighties: “And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.” Continue reading
Posted in September 2010
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