One of my favourite philosophy books when I was in college was called ‘Towards Self Meaning’. It was about how we come to know ourselves, how we come to self understanding and it in turn was based on the work of the philosopher Bernard Lonergan who wrote a book...
Sometimes we can be devastated when we are hit by a big change that we didn’t see coming. The short book by Dr. Spencer Johnson, Who moved my cheese? is a salutary tale of a couple of mice and a couple of little people whose ‘cheese’ got moved. One of the...
The Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie, in her talk on www.ted.com speaks about the negative power of having only one story to tell. We are all capable of telling ourselves one story about our life. Sometimes in our relationships we get stuck with one version, our...
This morning in Galway we had typical west coast of Ireland weather which began with dark skies, torrential rain and, as I write, the sun has emerged in all its glory and the sky is a clear blue. The weather here has sudden changes of heart all the time. I like that...
Recently I acquired a pair of crutches due to a simple injury. They will be my constant companions for the next few weeks. As a writer, its still possible to continue working but still life slows down immeasurably when every journey up or down stairs takes a lot of...
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