Iron Bars at Work and Play

a locked gate to a private park in Dublin

Good Day, God!

And it IS a good day that saw the airspace open over Ireland so we could fly back to Boston. I had no idea that I was taking the idea of being able to fly so for granted. Who would have imagined it could be so off again, on again!

So THANK YOU! Perhaps I picked this photo of a locked gate because I felt so locked in, yesterday. My travel meter had expired. I wanted to go home. I surely didn’t want to hear that the airspace (a term I’d never heard until April) had been closed.

Dublin has so many lovely public parks that it was sort of a shock to find this private part that belonged to the people owning the house on the square around it. FitzWilliam Square?

But, come to think of it, even the public parks are locked up for the night. Kit went to go running in St. Stephen’s Square and it was closed up tight until 9 a.m. Perhaps that is to keep the homeless from setting up bowers in the parks? Sigh. We didn’t see many homeless in Ireland — but we did see some.

Ireland has 300,000 unoccupied houses — they really rode their boom all the way up! And now that it has crashed they have a glut of houses.  I think they have a National Assets Management Corporation that is trying to figure out what to do with them. How are we to use our resources, God?

I really think everyone should work — doing something useful or helpful or even just entertaining. It is sad when people can’t work (drugs, mental illness, ?) Being part of a meaningful group is so important. We are social beings, aren’t we. And I do think we have a NEED for MEANiNG.

window grating in the Dublin Castle grounds

Ah, I am on my way back home — back to my really quite delightful life. I have to get back in shape but that doesn’t need to be a heavy thing.

It is true, I am always wanting to get myself better organized and my paperwork under control

But, God, with Your help I don’t need to take a Locked Gate approach.

Instead I can relax and laugh and do it all in a spirit of play — just like these happy circles are getting the job of being a grate done — with elan. RIGHT!

About a moment with god

Story teller,