Good MORNING God! HOME! Ta Da! Sound the TRUMPETS! I am PRAISING YOU, GOD, with cymbals and trumpets and hosannahs — albeit, silently, as the neighbors are asleep. Kit is running the Bill Beauchamp 10k this morning while I will…
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Spring, Swan Boats and Stepping out of Social Norms
Good Day, God! And it was a very good day! We had a day’s rest here in Boston to break up the long flight back from Ireland. The sun was shining brightly. The temperature was in the low 70’s and…
Iron Bars at Work and Play
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…
Dublin Castle, Mazes, and Making Choices
Here I am again, God This afternoon, I stood inside the Dublin Castle looking at this lovely green lawn with the brickwork pattern laid out in it. I could see that some “paths” came to a deadend, but I wasn’t…
A saint’s cell and solitude and silence
Another lovely day, God! Thank YOU! This morning we went back in time – back to the 600s in Glendalough. St. Kevin had gone off to be holy and ended up founding a monastery back in the 600s. I felt…
Gardeners, The Book of Kells and InterConnections
So! What would this world look like if we put gardeners in charge of it?
Famine Ships and Doing More
Good Gracious, God! How hard it is to “hear” the story of the Irish Famine from a real live human being! We are not designed to do numbers. One million dead — or was it two million dead — they…
Pansies and People and Time
Good Night, God, Another day of sight SEEING! And thank You for a lovely day. We saw a castle in Cahir — a castle belonging to the Butler family for over 800 years. That’s a long time.Then we stopped in…
The Lusitania and Sinking My Old Mental Maps
Good Day, God! Oh sigh, O DRAT! It is alway discomfiting, God, to have to rewrite history as I learned it. The Lusitania was sort of a sailing Pearl Harbor, circa 1915. Great Britain was in what was know as…
