What is perfection? T’is a class of a sort of a thing that maybe, I’d say, a lot of us know nothing about! What is perfection indeed? We think or even believe, we know but when it comes right down to it, we might be hard pressed to recognise it even if it jumped up and bit us in the face, as it were! Well, in my opinion perfection is not a something at all but more an airy fairy…
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!…
Well! Today I turn 66 years of age, having been born to this Earth on August 20th 1954. As they say in Cork “It could happen to a Bishop!“. It is, mind you, a little surreal as when we were young, we’d refer to ‘old age pensioners’ as if they were already long gone! We were kids and we thought we’d live forever! I still feel that way most days but my age pops up once a year to remind…
Oscar Wilde was rumoured to have advised “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken“. When you hear this, it makes great sense and yet it’s so easy to ‘sell your soul‘ for a little acceptance and comfort. I spent my life trying to be ‘a man’ or more precisely, ‘the man I thought my mother wanted me to be’. (God knows what she actually thought a man was or wanted me to be for that matter.) I laughed with a friend…
It’s now clear that my life has moved in phases, seven year phases to be precise! The ninth phase was just starting when I wrote Ode to Coumeenole including the verse ‘Seven year Phases’ about the first 56 years, or so! In the ninth phase, I sang great Irish and Italian songs on the streets of Ireland and in the tenth, I rested a while with my Love, in the charming city of Derry. Recently, I discovered Hakomi as a…
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…
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…
Hello how are you? I came across this website some time ago and it blew me away – Caroline Myss and the Chakra energy fields in your body. There are seven major Chakras and they align with the Seven Sacraments and the seven colours of the rainbow and seven days of the week. Have a read and change your life! https://www.myss.com/chakras/. What reminded me of this today was an email I got from Caroline suggesting that when you come across…
Good morning, or afternoon or whatever! Here’s a small gift I received from a great friend many moons ago in a place called the School of Philosophy. T’was a great place where I learned many things and received many valuable and precious gifts for living life and I wanted to share one of them with you today simply because it has done so much for me I had to pass it on! I hope you get as much from it…
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…