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The fragility of new things

The fragility of new things

I have been thinking for some time now about the fragility of new things. Prompted by time spent walking through the oak trees near my home, my thoughts initially catch on the incongruity of the bright delicate buds in spring juxtaposed with the old gnarled bark that...
One year on…

One year on…

It’s been a year now since that morning when, catching up on paperwork in my therapy room, I absorbed with a sense of unreality the Taoiseach’s announcement of the first Covid-19 lockdown. Making my way home shortly afterwards, I saw mounting queues outside the...
Samhain: the time between

Samhain: the time between

 The old Celts were very fond of the edges of things – the thresholds, the liminal spaces, dawns and dusks, fairy hills and misty trails where you couldn’t quite make out the way. Times and places that were neither one thing nor the other, that couldn’t quite be...
Lego as Mindfulness Practice

Lego as Mindfulness Practice

Those of us who find ourselves passing these lockdown days in the company of small children may find it challenging to set time aside for a regular meditation practice. This is especially true when your children wake before you in the morning and are in no hurry to...