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writing is storytelling - it has nothing to do with alphabets or pens or keyboards or dictionaries... writing A cousin in Dublin would send me blank books through the post. They would arrive, careful packages wrapped …
50 years ago today Sputnik began the "Space Age" - that got me thinking about "my first satellite"... lights in the sky sólás There were twenty or thirty of us up on the hill in the cemetery, heavy wool coats pulle…
an experiment related to the multiplicity of personality and storytelling... a thrice told tale... iomadúil I wish I had gotten there just a bit earlier. Of course I do. First, I would have been ahead of the rain,…
I don't want to be in "the world" today... return filleadh The train pulled out of Killiney as the rain lashed down on the rails and the stone walls lining the track, but she had brought a vacuum flask of coffee, inc…
perhaps simply poetry... evening tráthnóna The rain finally broke and we climbed out of the tent, first I, then she. There are few things as intimate as sharing a tiny cloth shelter in a downpour with not another hum…
another slight re-write... but slowly things are getting done, and I can get back to new words again... The Sea cois farraige Sitting on the beach at Enniscrone, a few of us on towels, most just on the chill, damp s…
random thinking on a hurried morning... division deighilt The two sides of Lough Foyle are different colours. The County Donegal side is a deeper green, the hills hold more visible rock, the moss grows more thickl…
a murderous week for me - work-wise - a rerun until I can get fully to the other side... The Weight Dropping out of the window as the Long Tower chimes three and clambering down the drainpipe I move slowly and…
barbara wrote about walls today, and then I thought of this... the border an teorainn We are walking the ridge the long way, crossing the field of tall grasses. It rained this morning, pouring down from a deep g…
old pieces, ones that I am not at all sure about, but somehow important to me... Rapid Transit luas timing His watch didn't work. Well, it worked, but randomly, and offered him facts meaningless, …