Mel O'Gorman

Normal mothers

‘Why can’t you just be like a normal mother?’ my daughter ranted. Twelve years old and already asserting herself in this way. She had just got into the car after a long day at school and she started on at me. I hoped I could keep my cool. ‘What’

Friendship

A visualization workshop

A bag full of clothes

Being a hybrid

Conversation between two trees

When opportunity knocks

Something magical just happened..

He is with our Lord Jesus

My secret power

Deep Inside

The meaning of life- an imaginary interview with Viktor Frankl Mel: Hi Viktor, this has been a long time coming. I have admired you and your work for many decades and never hesitate to recommend your book, Man’s Search for Meaning to as many people as possible who have

Free spirit

Gretel and Hansel

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 with issues to do with climate

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 conversations were painful and I found

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 rain that the ground soaks up;

Winter Swimming

Magic in her hands

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 between the strictures and restraints of

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 in another continent avoiding big potholes

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 soul. We all witness the long

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 all the things that you want

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 some sort of swell with the

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 To fly beyond. In keeping them

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