Tag: wellbeing
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The practice of looking up
Last week, things were feeling tight. Part of my discomfort was that I had a computer heavy week with very little output. This is perhaps funny as one of the projects that I was working on was the Art of Rest, which is starting in the Sanctuary this coming weekend. Despite the research that I…
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I’m fine…well I’m basically OK
It’s been a weekend of wild weather, over here in Ireland. A sense of foreboding started early in the week with headlines declaring a storm so big that the whole country would be on Red Alert. I’d like to say that I was cool as a cucumber with all my mindfulness and stuff. And mostly,…
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The middle way
I wish I could say it’s a generational thing, but my son expressing anxiety and stress due to his lack of knowing what the next few years look like is unsettlingly familiar. He’s been feeling discouraged and disillusioned with the university experience and is looking to apply to an exchange programme as a means of…
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Home is where the heart is
Whenever I think of the phrase ‘home is where the heart is’, I see a handstitched needlepoint in a wooden frame hanging on a wall in my grandmother’s house. The word ‘home’, almost like a beating heart, yearningly calling us all in for some of her warm, soft love. Perhaps, this is what Maya Angelou…
My Silent Place 