Stopping in to say hi and wishing I did'nt have to work today. but I will eventually have to go out of the house if I just wasnt so lazy today

Just checking on my friends! Stop by for coffee when you get a chance Dennis

Greetings, from Ireland. Stop by and have a cup of tea or Irish Coffee and stay for a chat.

When I wrote my blog for today I hope it is as meanifull to you as it was for me writing it. Have a good day today and a wonderful tomorrow

How goes the War? (Your life as you know it)Thought I'd stop by and send you a shout out for the weekend! Enjoy the warm days and the cool nights!

Just stopped by to ask this:If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind then what is the sign of an empty desk? Have a great W/E.

Compliments, Compliments, Compliments!

I've taken up the Summer of Compliments Challenge. The object is to hand out 100 compliments to 100 people by the end of summer. You can do this in:



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Interesting concept, hm? At first I wasn't sure whether to join. 100 compliments isn't too daunting a task, but 100 people? Meeting them would need a lot of boldness on my part. However, thanks to the Internet, I figured I'd manage. This would be a great learning experience in kindness, empathy, motivation, and organization for me. So I did it.

I committed. Link: http://complimenter.blogspot.com

In Corrogue it is frosty.

The ramp into our “acre of diamonds” is now firm underfoot where before it was a sea of mud. Murphy our dog runs excitedly by my side. We are on our way to release the chickens from the coop. They are to be fed porridge oats in milk.

Murphy has become an honorary chicken. He has been self-appointed. He now eats with the hens and cockerels as I give them their long awaited breakfast. They are now together, dog and birds, loving this life that is secure and satisfying for them.

I am becoming clearer. I am becoming more integrated and more know of the flow of this life. I am become a soul friend. I am becoming what is known in the Celtic tradition an Anam Cara. This translates as Anam meaning “soul” and Cara meaning “friend.”

Like our beautiful dog Murphy I am busy rounding up different aspects of my less integrated self. These are pieces that are like different chickens within a roost. I gently bring them together in love and acceptance. I imagine myself sitting atop a chicken coop with my chicken friends and we would debate various life questions.

We might ask “What does it mean to be a seeker after soul.” We would squawk about our inner life. We would peck at the question “is the unexamined life worth living?” We would joke about what happened when the chicken crossed the road. More seriously we would scratch in the earth to query that existential question, “What came first - the chicken or the egg?”

One of our favourite hens (and I have to acknowledge I do have favourites) is Boddica. She is fearless. She would be the hen to ask fierce questions. She is the hen equivalent of a soul friend. She probes your knowing and understanding of who you really are. She might ask, “What does an Anam Cara do?

In answer to Bodica`s question I would humbly reply thus.

An Anam Cara loves your essence.

They see you beyond your mask. This is the mask of persona. This is what you call personality. They see

O.K. What Hoave you done with my friend? I give my stash of starbucks to have Lora brought back!

Where's my girl gone???

It's snowing ! It's snowing Nollaig Shona Duit (Happy Christmas in Irish)

Blessings upon you and those you love and do not love.

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too few
And heaven is overflowing.

Thought I'd call and wish you
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!