I once read something by Luisa Francia, one of the wise-women whose life's work have given me so much inspiration and teaching on my own pagan path. She described how she'd dealt with being burgled by allowing, rather than resisting, her attacker, and letting his energy flow through her without doing any damage. In recent …
Wanderlust
This time last year I was in Canada. In fact, at this exact minute (taking into account the time difference) I was on a boat watching seals, seagulls and two sea eagles off the coast of Nova Scotia. Siiiiiigh... such a beautiful corner of planet Earth. I hope I'll get to go back some time. …
Le-e-et the sunshine in…!
I write about this every year - the luminous weeks, the period from around the end of May to the end of July. My favourite time in the year. I'll try and shake it up a little so it won't get boring - promise! This year, we've had a beautiful late spring, with temperatures well …
Charming Margaret
I was this close to losing my faith in the people here in recent weeks. If anyone doesn't know about this: This Friday, Ireland voted on whether or not to remove an amendmend to our constitution which puts a blanket ban on abortions. No other country I know of has a blanket ban written into …
My Personal Manifesto (And A Quiz!)
Currently, I'm once again wondering whether blogging is still the right medium for me. Fewer and fewer people seem to read or engage in conversation, especially with my usually happy posts. I'm just not interested in holding a monologue! People are my lifeblood, one of my main passions actually, and talking to myself is not …
Birthday, Bows and Birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8CEE8G6D3M Here's a rather dark video with lots of appropriately blurry pictures of the party last Saturday. I had a great time dancing and hugging people I love. Inga, Rachel and Maeve had even come up from Cork! It was my friend Andrew's birthday that day and mine yesterday, so we celebrated together and he …
You’re Invited
I don't have a lot of pictures that aren't of birds these days, so I thought I'd use one from our latest Gort Community Market day. It was soooo beautiful! Lovely people and great craic as usual. Since it's winter now, we've also added open fires and a little market extension in the cosy back …
Bliss
I accidentally joined the nicest gym in the world. Part of my benefits at my job is a gym re-imbursement. It explicitly excludes martial arts involving weapons, so I've always ignored it so far. But now, after almost a year and a half of forced inactivity due to injury, now that my muscles are once …
New Year’s Hag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLuk2Agamk Every year when I wake up on the 1st of January, the first thing I do is to play U2's "New Year's Day" at top volume and dance to it. It's easy to see why I live alone. But seriously, the song's got such energy and promise. It's exactly the way I want to …
You’re Ageist
This year, I find myself quite unexpectedly in a festive mood. I think I've managed to truly detach myself from the materialistic aspects of "the season" and now I can appreciate all the magic and the true meaning of Advent, the expectation of the returning light. And oh how I crave light. Winter's darkness can …
