Where are the magpies? October edition
At the end of March, I wondered, where are the magpies? In July, I noted that there were indeed magpies and helpfully I reblogged James Common’s excellent post on whether magpies do indeed “kill all…
Category: the particular
From “The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty” – Paul Evdokimov
The Creator, like a divine poet, in bringing the world into being out of nothingness, composed his Symphony in Six Days, the Hexameron. After each one of his creative acts,…
Fifty Ways to Build a Hedgehog House
Well, not quite fifty – but there is a range of methods seen in these YouTube videos on the apparently simple project of how to build a hedgehog house. Sometimes one…
Deer ears
My post on forest bathing on A Medical Education may have seemed a little sceptical in tone. That’s because it was in terms of the claims made for forest bathing…
No green to be seen: a biodiversity desert on Slievenamon
Two weeks ago I walked on Slievenamon, not all the way to the summit but simply up the path near Kilcash and then around the area just where this path…
Holy Well, Wilderness Gorge, Clonmel
Walking through Wilderness Gorge in Clonmel – a somewhat less dramatic landscape than the name suggests – I came across this sign: It had been a good few weeks since I had…
Rain songs: Sinatra, The Go-Betweens, Linda Perhacs
It’s a rainy morning and with numbing literality I am going to post three songs with the word “rain” in the title. Three songs which, in different ways, capture something…
Séamus Sweeney 