Eden Eden I saw a young mother with her very young baby today. The little boy snuggled into his mother’s neck and faced me with a fearless look. His deep brown eyes looked straight through me as if he knew all my recent struggles
Burnout The first time it happened I was age twenty five. It was like entering a long woolly tunnel, not soft and welcoming but dank and stifling. I changed from being a highly sociable being to one who spent all my free time alone. Normal
Transformation I love this time of the year, midwinter, days of beautiful sunlight, no longer burning but warming deliciously. I love it too, when like the flick of a switch, the usual weather turns into a swirling, surging storm that brings with it the blessed
Flying your dreams You are just on the cusp of life. In a few more weeks you move from childhood to adulthood. It’s not just the exam process marring the end of secondary school for every Irish young person that delineates in such a peculiar way
Losing the battle This is the probably the ninth time I tell myself as I hurtle along the highway chasing the ambulance doing well over the speed limit and I wonder about speeding tickets in the weeks to come. I’ve done this madcap trip once before
Times of Overwhelm It’s all of those times and none of those times when the conflagration of time and space and living burns a hole in the even tenor of life and opens up the hell tucked away so carefully in the tattered corners of the
Purpose I enjoyed our recent conversation that revolved around one of the toughest questions. What is having a purpose in life and how do you know when you have discovered it? You were so full of energy the other night flying through the list of
Life Under I’m not the fastest swimmer or the deepest diver nor am I a glamorous mermaid lounging on a rock and then gracefully sliding off to play underwater. But the sea is my element. I love to dive in quickly, better if there is
Walking in the flow ‘Courage, is fear walking,’ she said ‘Life has legs,' he said, ‘and continuously walks. We must walk with it or we will be left behind.’ We are all born with the wings Of delicious dreams and potential, Whose use allows us to learn
Skin The sky above this earth Is our own living skin The ultimate film of protection Over our lands, our seas Over all our dreams, The kindest shelter from What’s
Liminality Shall we choose to limit ourselves To the old patterns and ways Or open up ourselves fully With new wings, light with dreams Long shrouded by the old and folded
Soul Mothers It’s high summer. The cool air in the early morning wafts in through the filmy curtain in the bedroom. The curtain is a beautiful mixture of creams and whites
Transformation I love this time of the year, midwinter, days of beautiful sunlight, no longer burning but warming deliciously. I love it too, when like the flick of a switch, the usual weather turns into a swirling, surging storm that brings with it the blessed
Loving Kindness To me, a life lived with love means that if you bring love and operate from your heart versus operating from your head there is a profound difference in the world you experience and create. Bruce Lipton Your work is going to fill a
Hawa Hawa was seventeen, the head girl and one of the smartest people in the school. She stood out, in her tall and elegant youthful beauty, at the daily school assembly held at 8 am in the open air in front of the bush secondary
