Reflections

Make friends with the darkness

Today is Samhain, the Celtic name for Halloween. It marks the transition point into the darkest three months of the year. Paradoxically, the Celts believed that the New Year starts today.…

Life is short – what do you want to do with yours?

The Autumn Equinox was a couple of weeks ago. I missed my usual seasonal post because I was at the hospital in Dublin with my dear brother Anthony as he…

Summer in the City – Outrage and Being Real

One of my supervision clients, Susan*, works in a large hospice. She is called upon to manage death day and night. These deaths rarely fit the romantic picture of slipping…

Summer Restoration – what’s your guilty pleasure?

Picture the scene: I’m standing in a field at a festival in East Sussex surrounded by my mates, the opening chords of “Can You Feel It?” by The Jacksons thrum through the…

Impatient for better stories to live by

“We don’t describe what we see; we see what we describe.”Joe Jaworski It’s high Spring – a time of blossom, bursting forth, renewal, but also a time of volatile weather,…

My weekend with St Brigid

We’ve just passed Imbolc – the mid point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. We’ve survived the darkest quarter of the year and the first sniffings of Spring are…

That inter-regnum period

It’s that inter-regnum period when the festivities which mark the turning of the year are over but Spring has not yet come – except that with the rain and spells…

Winter Solstice – the stitch that is yours to sew

Today is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. From tomorrow onwards, the days will be imperceptibly longer as we start the journey…

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