been away from here

blog-hibernating ??

"if you follow every dream
you might
get
lost"

great to see u again!

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i was just looking through some posts on here from jan/feb 2007; i enjoyed doing that, and i'm glad that i posted those thoughts/notes there in the first place, and also that i came back to re-visit them.

i found a few gems there; not only the following one which i was specifically searching for in order to re-post here now:

"as long as my wife, our kids and myself are healthy
and together,
that is the most important factor
and everything else is secondary!"

i believe one should constantly keep such things in mind

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"i can sit
i can wait
i can fast"

- siddhartha [in herman hesse's book of the same name]

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"leaves, they fall
but you know
you're never
gonna sweep 'em all"
- tim rogers

"sweeping is so satisfying"
- achaan chah

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"just let go
do not try to become anything
do not make yourself into anything
grasp at nothing
resist nothing

move gracefully through the world not caught in evaluating each event,
watch with equanimity

peace is within oneself, to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering"

- achaan chah: excerpts from 'a still forest pool'


i sometimes tell myself that if i can become the fella who doesn't give a shit about most stuff, particulary he who doesn't give a shit about what others may or may not think about him; then i would be a long way to being satsified and at peace.
but, try occasionally as i might, i haven't been able to become that fella at this stage. still, here's to hoping that one day ....

so that's one of my aims in life: to not give a shit about most things ... except the wellbeing of family & friends

thanx to my mate andy for helping put me back in touch with some of the stuff cited above

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riverrun (it's a joyce-ian thing)

greetings from dublin
it would be stating the obvious to say it's been a while!
where to begin?
so much to say and yet ...

well

still kickin
"each time i find myself
flat on my face
i just pick myself up
and bet back
in the race!"

kickin a hole in the sky?

who says this needs to be coherent?

is this better than nothing?
u b the judge
ub40

i gotta get this goin again
been 7-8months
almost enuogh time for a human baby to be coceived, to gestate and develop and be born ...
almost

had a great idea
well, an idea
to post pics of dogshits on dublin pavements
plenty of material there i can tell u!

but surely we can do better than that

anyhow my daughter wants her mummy's handbag

slainte

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ok, hi ...


i know, i know - i've been neglecting this blog! sorry - but i've been busy setting up our new life here in ireland over the past 3.5 weeks ... and that takes mucho time & effort!

well - one other thing actually: i've actually started another bloggy to keep family and friends up to date with our happenings & pics from here ... do want to see it???

if u do, here r some clues as to how u can find it:
- u take the web address of this blog
- remove the word that is the title of this blog, and susbstitute that with another word which is:
- the name of the city i am now living in, but with one difference:
- remove 1 letter in that city name - this being the letter which starts the name of the main river that runs thru the city i am now living in
- one in place of that one letter, substitute the first letter of my [blogger] name ...
- and that's it

so there u go - is the above too difficult? c'mon - just google the river name ... ;-D

see u over there maybe?

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