I am a big fan of WB Yeats , particulalry when he goes into full elegy mode where he shifted from the austere celitc romance to an ambivalent tone blendinhg personal emotion with public despair.
After a period of doomscrolling yesterday I threw on my imaginary donegal tweed waistcoat, grabbed epigrammatic blackthorn walking stick and went looking for words these are the ones I found .. aplogies to WB and my sister Janet who was better with words in verses than me
Category: Life
Being Kintsugi
Japan has an idea called wabi-sabi, which is the way we need to try to find beauty in imperfection, some thoughts on this to start 2026
Umpherday (aka the 27th December)
Winter Solstice Thoughts
In Praise of Kitchens
Christmas shopping has changed
A 2025 Shopping trip in late November reminds me of the shoppiing trips in the 70’s which were markedly different in Northern ireland , find out what I mean by clicking “Read More”
Saturdays from long ago remembered
I remember Saturday afternoons from long ago and I smile .. click read more to find out why
Silence is a good thing
Sitting with my mother in the days before her death
As my mother’s long life was ending we in the family made sure she was not alone and we sat wither her in shifts. As I sat this occured to me. Click read more to see the details
Thoughts on the Migrant Trial in the Sperrins
There is much being said about Migratants in the press at the minute. Ireland was the source of a mass migration to the “new world” in the 1840’s .. these are my thoughts
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