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Blessing, Cursing and the Irish

Anyone who knows an impressionistic bit about Irish/Celtic culture and history might readily think of various poetical Irish Blessings such as, “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.” I was able to type the above from memory not because I necessarily...

It’s All So Remarkable

As I was pulling into the Walmart center late this afternoon, I glanced off toward a small car that immediately caught my artist’s eye. From about fifty feet away, it appeared to somehow be entirely covered in stickers. I immediately had some image of an old rusty car being held together by stickers as my mind quickly contemplated the paper-mache-like appearance of this vehicle. I thought to myself, “that’s remarkable.” And I found myself doing a u-turn and pulling into...

Lilacs, Less Than, Greater Than

Last week I passed my lilac bush and pulled down a cluster of these beautiful, purple blossoms that are such harbingers of spring and breathed in the deeply pungent aroma. The smell of lilacs has got to be the most primal of pleasant nature aromas going far back into my toddlerhood. The smell is so deeply embedded in my brain that just one deep inhalation leaves me reeling in some wonderful way with the perfection of the scent. It is...

The Only Sane Response

“In WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr writes, “a sane person in an insane society must appear insane”. Thomas Stephen Szasz contends: “Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society”. And the British psychiatrist R. D. Laing said insanity was “a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world”. I think I recall Star Trek’s Mr Spock saying something similar.” – Source (I’m not vouching for the content of this entire article–it is simply the first that popped up with the quote...