I recently had the opportunity to sit in a group and work through some unresolved tension between some of the group members. The method used for relieving the tension was so simple – good communication. Everyone spoke in turn, without interruption. People took their time, there was no rush, there was time to think about…
Wow, it’s been ages since I’ve posted! What have you all been up to? I have been helping out at an amazing week long workshop where eighteen guys were learning to build a wind turbine – how cool is that? The workshop was organised by a locally based couple, the Leitrim Renewable Energy people Eirbyte. …
Death comes to us all My mother passed away at the end of May, just a few short weeks ago. She had been trapped in the strange world of Alzheimer’s disease for a number of years, slowing disappearing, little by little. We were so lucky that she didn’t lose her sweet character, her love of…
I have been preoccupied lately and not paid much attention to the web so tonight I have been doing some catching up and reading some favourite blogs. It was like a winters evening, I lit the fire about 5pm, himself put a chicken in the oven. I read as the wind blew around us and…
Why do we make bad food decisions? We all make unhealthy decisions from time to time, quite often in relation to food. Sometimes we wonder why we act against our better judgement, perhaps that doughnut just looked too good to pass up or we were tired and so it was harder to exercise self control….
If you are new to reading this blog you may be confused by entries appearing in a very strange calender order – the explanation being that I had lost all my entries due to a large technical hiccup in Canada where my blog was sitting on a server that became non-existent. I found some of…
