For me, joy is something I tend to take for granted until it’s gone and then I start looking for it by asking questions like what is joy for me? https://vimeo.com/533098850 Joy for me is when I fall into my heart! When I fall in love with Love! And here’s the good news, I always fall in Love, when I have the courage to speak my Truth out loud, especially when it sounds or feels really stupid, in my head….
Sometime during the 20th century, a family psychiatrist by the name of Bert Hellinger, was helping a teenage girl. The story I’ve heard is that to deal with her issues he would invite family members to take part in her therapy sessions, the idea being that in the bosom of her family, the girl would feel safer and more open to her own inquiry, helping her to understand her own workings a little better. On one particular day, one of…
I was awoken again, last night, by a deep crying in my sleep! A strange, unsettling feeling filled the room. In my dream, I had just cleaned the house in readiness for a visitor, but couldn’t see who! The house was mine but I didn’t recognise it. I was standing in a bright but dusty room, looking down the stairs at an open-plan kitchen, with a sitting room off to the left. It reminded me of our house in Howth…
Be Yourself! This is the theme of my life! Not me being myself as much as me exclaiming the need to be yourself! It’s in everything I write and have said for decades and yet I still find it hard to follow my own advice. I live in fear of the very thing I ask you to rise above – excommunication or in simpler terms, derogatory comments from under the breath of my peers. Oh how petty this powerful thing!…
Just when you thought you had it all figured out somebody upped and changed all the rules! That’s the way it feels sometimes! Your life repeats its patterns until you change the way you act. They say! How simple, and yet I’m surprised every time, by my repeating shape! I fall asleep and react before I get a chance to respond! Too late! “Feckiddy feckiddy feck”! I’m like a cork bobbing up and down in the sea! Today is a good…
One of the verses I penned back in the winters of 2008 and 2009 was ‘Someone’. I craved to be loved by ‘someone’ so I wrote my dreams down on a piece of paper and pinned them to my bedroom door where I could see them in clear view so I might be reminded constantly of what I wanted. “I want to love a man deeply and be loved back by him deeply”. It took all my strength to write…
Resting in your light my love, I feel your warm embrace With you my love, I fall in love, my love, beyond improbable space Far beyond these words, I write, beyond these shadows, wrong and right Beyond a life of lonely trial, beyond the pondering why The love you give me back my love makes it all worthwhile You make a man of me my love, you make it matter not What I wear, what they care or even dare, atop their righteous role You show me love what love is, love Beyond that counting…