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I’m bursting to share this thing…..
(Lavender) AAAAAh I was taking to someone over the weekend and they asked me what I was up to and I mentioned my Kickstart you Creativity course was starting in November. And as I mumbled and stuttered through some kind … Continue reading
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The Incredible Hulk IS Scary
(Nice calming water picture… Vouvant) Soooo there I was driving down to the supermarket. (By the way the Eat the Fridge thing is going great! – go to shop only once a week even if it seems there’s nothing left … Continue reading
What’s the story? Part 2
(Widen your focus… and see the big picture) The story of us is part of a big Map. The Map is the representation we have created in our mind of the real world outside our mind. It’s just a representation, … Continue reading
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What’s your story?
(Mount Usher in Ashford, Co. Wicklow) The story of our lives is not the story of what happened… It’s the story of what we are. The story that starts “I am….” The story we think we became because of our … Continue reading
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The rainy season has arrived…. time for a story change!
(Lovely day in Cashel, Co. Tipperary on Saturday) It rained all day yesterday and it looks like it’s ready to do the same today. As always it’s funny how I get used to the weather and think it’ll never be … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, behaviour, Cashel, change, choices, follow your dream, goals, inspire, patterns, photography, Rock of Cashel, story, Tipperary, travel, wishes
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Today was a bit slow……
(Vegetables for the lasagna) As I write it’s nearly time for bed and I’m not so sure I’m going to have something to write about. Today I made a vegetarian lasagna. Today I went to the shop. Today I read … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Mammy!
(This way. This way.) It’s a bank holiday weekend in Ireland so we celebrated and had our lunch out and now we’re having coffee (for him) and green tea (for me) as well. My sister-in-law (Hi Helen!) thinks I spend … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloom, Cashel, Clonmel, coffee, green tea, little things, Mum, photography, story
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We’re Back in Ireland
(We didn’t take think it was worth the risk) We’re back on Irish soil again and for a few days it’s been very hot and sunny. Today is rainy but I have high hopes for tomorrow. I also have high … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, calm, choices, decisions, habit, just do it, patterns, photography, thinking, wishes, writing
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Birds and Toddlers do it.
(A Robin) The birds are singing outside the window again as I write and I continue to be amazed at how much their singing affects me. For the better. I’m cheered just listening to them do their thing. They have … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, awareness, baby steps, being present, birds, choices, impact, now, photography, singing, story
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Hello blog, whatcha got today?
(Brooklodge Hotel near Aughrim, Co. Wicklow) Every day to write this blog, I sit down facing a window with a view to the sky. I never know what I’m going to write about. I never know if anything will turn … Continue reading
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Tagged brooklodge hotel, fear, inspire, just do it, little things, now, photography, wishes
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St. Patrick’s Mother’s Day.
(The Rock of Cashel – St Patrick definitely may have visited here (before the scaffolding and stone buildings)) Memories of my long weekend: Saturday… sitting in the lounge of Brooklodge Hotel looking out the window, listening to wedding guests all … Continue reading
He Stole my Laptop
(The gift) I was in a cafe in Dublin today. I ordered my tea (giving coffee a wide berth for a while) and noticed the cashier wasn’t giving me her full attention. Her eyes had drifted from my face … Continue reading
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A belief is only an opinion we think is true…
(3fe Abbey Street Dublin) Still here at 3fe, it’s very busy but they haven’t asked me to leave…yet! So yesterday, I was talking about tying ourselves to a belief. I have another belief to share. When I was eighteen and … Continue reading
Ok we’re home now….
(Charlottenburg Palace) Right, let’s get a few things straight. I will want you to remind me of these if I mention another holiday. So pay close attention: 1. Irish-type weather suits me, even though I love sunshine…. it’s not my … Continue reading
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Taxi Tour Guide
(Lunch…. looking like a green moustached little man?) We had a very interesting conversation with our taxi driver on the way to the airport. He’d lived in Berlin for sixteen years and loved it. As a teenager he’d been taken on … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, choices, courage, Germany, photography, story, taxi
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You are Here
(Where are we?) In the cathedral building on the Rock of Cashel, there’s a map of all the buildings on the site. This map is on a stone plinth in the centre of the cathedral. Somewhere on that map there’s a label … Continue reading
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Learning to Swim
(Ellen, who showed me the Living with Beauty swim) Our nice visitors are gone. We miss them. We do have a pair of shoes they accidentally left behind but it’s just not the same. So maybe it’s not “the clothes that make … Continue reading
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Tagged Dublin, goldfish, inspire, little things, pets, story
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Dublin Rocks
(Pasta (not shown) and salad for dinner) We went to Dublin today. We have very nice visitors staying with us for a few days. They are so nice that while I’m writing this they are cooking our dinner. Today with … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, Art Gallery, Dublin, Fred Hanna's, Grafton Street, James Joyce, Leopold Bloom, story, Trinity College, wishes
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My dream job
(One paw, two pause…) We have a George Foreman grill. It’s a thing you plug in and when it heats up you put in your rashers or burgers or some other thing you might want to grill. It was advertised … Continue reading
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Tagged dream life, problems, story, you're unique
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Awful Arabella
(Maybe it’s time to cut the grass) Ok, assignment well on the way to being finished… so I’ll take a break to tell you a story. When our children were little I used to love reading to them. I think … Continue reading
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Stuff Happens
(Dogs create stuff) I have a deadline on Friday to finish an assignment. But I finished it today! Yippee! Then I read the instructions…… it was the first time I’d read them. They would have been very useful, because they were … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, awareness, Breathe. pause, chocolate, little things, read the instructions, story, stuff happens, sugar
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Don’t sweat the meatballs!
(Damien and Nat are organising a Flamenco Festival in Dublin 23rd to 31st July http://www.dublinflamencofestival.com) The de-clutter is continuing slowly, and today (Sunday) we went to Ikea. Not entirely sensible, because we might have been tempted to buy more clutter. Fortunately … Continue reading
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What’s with all the white vans?
(Aren’t beads lovely?) We brought an old rusty bicycle to the Happy Pear today. That’s all. Nothing happened. Nothing struck me as interesting or noteworthy. Except…… (How many words can you make out of the letters in the word Private?) … Continue reading
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Thank you Aunty Phil!
(Butterfly in Powerscourt Gardens) The Happy Pear cafe/restaurant/vegetable shop in Greystones has come up with another healthy idea. They are asking people to donate their old bicycles, no matter what condition. They will fix them up and then make them … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, being present, example, inspire, just do it, little things, photography, story
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What do you need?
(Willow, the dog) There are lots of flowers growing in our garden at the moment. Sounds good, but… most of them are weeds. One which hasn’t started flowering yet has already grown to the height of the clothes line. Why … Continue reading
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My new love……
(Railway track – there was nothing coming…) Today as I write (Monday) my sister and her family have woken up in their new life in Canada. A few hours later than us and six degrees warmer (information via iPhone). I … Continue reading
Let the Bag Decide
(You can never have enough tin cans…. or blue paint…..) On holidays, a small bag was the only storage available for my worldly goods. There’s only so much luggage a motorbike can carry and it’s not as much as a … Continue reading
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Raindrops
(Rain on the red flowers in the front garden….) I was out walking in the rain today. Not really by choice, I had some things I needed to do. I was wearing a raincoat and a hat and a skirt. … Continue reading
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Mairead Hennessy 