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- The Sum of All Fears“ … the only thing we have to fear is fear itself …”Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1933) "There is always an easy solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong."H. L. Menken, The Divine Afflatus (1917)Let me begi...
- The Sad, Mad World we Live inDo you know the feeling, that feeling of anger and disgust at the amount of fucked-up stupidity, evil and hopelessness in the world? Today a couple of (almost certainly) Islamicist fanatic terrorists attacked the offices of the French satirical paper...
- Ukraine: Conflicting Narratives“Narrative” has become one of those buzz-words or buzz-concepts which one cannot avoid nowadays. At its most basic, it simply means “story”; in the more precise cultural context in which it is generally used, it is a story told or sharedwithi...
- Complexity MeditationI was in an aeroplane, more than seven miles up, when I started thinking about the complexity of things.For people who do meditation, one of the major goals is to achieve simplicity, that sensation when all is one, when the constant ephemera of daily...
- Walking SlowlyI have started to practice walking slowly.As a little boy, around fifty years ago now, I decided that there was something virtuous about walking quickly. I suspect that this is a common phenomenon among little boys who go walking with their fathers;...
- Back Home to Sligo“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”(L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between)I had occasion recently to visit a part of my past, a period immensely important and formative for me, a place which was, for seven years, both focus...
- Family Histories 1: The CowboyIt was a fine Sunday morning in early summer 1865. James Hunt opened the door of his new home and looked south over the road and the downward sloping land towards the lake. He gave a sigh of contentment and muttered a brief prayer of thanks in Irish...
- A Kind of Christmas Card ...The (temporary) creative pause from posting regularly on this blog which I decided to acknowledge (or give myself – I’m not sure which is closer to the truth; probably both) is something that I’m actually finding very pleasant. Just tooling aro...
- Ireland's Abortion Legislation MessIt is not an easy thing to say, particularly to say publicly in a forum like this for the whole world to read. But it is the way I have been feeling for the past week or so.At the moment, I am ashamed to be Irish.On November 14, the Irish Times publi...
- ListeningIt’s four in the morning and I’m on the night shift. Things are quiet; the five children who are my charges are all sleeping peacefully. I’ve just been outside for a cigarette, leaving the door slightly open so that I can hear the signal, shoul...
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