From Mental Health For Millennials Vol 4 ‘On Wellbeing’ (2020). Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are. How deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness’ (Tolle, 2003: 5). This chapter looks at wellbeing in the context of resilience, which is the…
“Let Us Always Meet Each Other With A Smile, For the Smile Is the Beginning of Love” Mother Teresa Whilst travelling by train from Schiphol airport to Hoorn in North Holland this September, something lovely happened. As is the case on most forms of public transport across the world in 2020, everyone was wearing a…
The Millennial Appetite for Culinary Wellness by Catherine Fitzgibbon “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” – Thomas Edison WELL let me Begin… It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to my state of being comfortable, happy and…
MY REVIEW SINCE MEETING BOOK HUB PUBLISHING ON 29/9/2020 BY THOMAS KIELY As we move more into the month of November, it’s a month that’s going to bring up so many memories and mixed emotions for me. This time 12 months ago, I had only weeks left with Angela, my wife, as she struggled with…
‘To Be or Not to be’, It’s a Cert for Leaving? By Paddy McMenamin Well, that’s it over for another year, three weeks of Algebra & Geometry, French & German, Shakespeare & George Orwell, J B Keane & Sophocles, the Treaty of Limerick or the Treaty of 1921, and, of course Gaeilge, written & aural,…
Belt It Out Detta “The Only Thing Better Than Singing, Is More Singing” Ella Fitzgerald My earliest memories of my mum were of her voice. To be specific, her singing voice. I remember her singing in church, in the car, karaoke, around the piano with her siblings, in fact anywhere. She would love to sing…
On Statues and Historical Legacy Floyd will never know how his death changed the world, the innocent Minneapolis guy who had a racist cop stand on his neck for 12 minutes while he gasped for breath and eventually expired has inspired people the world over to stand up against institutionalised racism – and not before…
In c431a Welsh Shepard found his way to this part of the world and changed the place for all time. Patrick or Patricius had already been here previously after being sold into slavery by Irish pirates, now he was coming back as a preacher to convert a pagan island to Christianity, ordaining priests to spread…
Review Of “We’ll Meet Again” Written by Colm Keane by debut reviewer Thomas Kiely. This is the first book I have read in over five years and, to be truthful, to commence with something I would not normally read was challenging, but also, I have to say, very interesting. My views on spirituality and visions during…
“Meeting the challenges of being still, allows the inner storm or calm to bubble to the surface, thereby enabling dynamic transformation”. – Giselle Marrinan As we are now in the Autumn months with the leaves rustling around the doorsteps, it seems appropriate to address our spiritual being. As the days shorten and the weather changes…