Wonder – Haiku 2024 #WDYS 241 – Suzette B’s Blog

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inner child’s gaze

sampling joy without judgment

teething on wonder

Source: Wonder – Haiku 2024 #WDYS 241 – Suzette B’s Blog

Slowed Down But Not Run Down | From Behind the Pen

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There are teachable moments throughout our phases and stages of life, but there are also learnable moments that penetrate each chapter we go through. I realize there are things I am not able to do now as effectively as I once did through my formative years, but there are things I can do now that would have been impossible to do during those formative years.

We are familiar with the quote, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey”  by Ralph Waldo Emerson that makes us realize every single thing we endured and celebrated to get to where we are now. We are at a different level of awareness and acceptance, and even if we cry about missed opportunities, we can’t wallow in the mud of failure.

So, what will the next chapter in our lives bring? I haven’t the faintest idea what my next chapter will look like but it will be steeped in lessons learned and an opening for more lessons to be learned. We will cross those mountains somehow if only we will try. Perhaps we will not get there as swiftly but the more we focus on a different approach and pace, we will rise with a renewed sense of purpose and position.

From The Prince of Egypt Score 1998 – Boyz II Men 

Source: Slowed Down But Not Run Down | From Behind the Pen

The Dublin Martyr’s | Ed Mooney Photography

…Back around 2000 Bray local Conall McCabe was commissioned by Cardinal Desmond Connell to sculpt a permanent memorial to two Irish Martyrs, Francis Taylor and his grandmother-in-law Margaret Ball. It’s said that Conall’s parents Una and Dermot were used as models for the sculptures as there is little known about the martyr’s physical appearance. Unveiled in 2001to applause from the clergy this bronze memorial, tells the story of two Irish people who died for their beliefs.

We shall start with Margaret Ball the earlier of the two. Margaret was originally born in Skryne in Co. Meath in 1515. (Why is everything I do & see have connections?) Her father had moved from England during the reign of Henry VIII due to the religious reforms of the time and set up a farm. By 15 she had married a Bartholomew Ball of Balrothery, whom operated the bridge over the river Dodder. They had 10 kids of which only five survived till adulthood. Then in 1553 her husband was elected Mayor of Dublin, which in effect made Margaret a Mayoress. All good so far, right? They say you Can choose your friends but not your family. Never such a truer statement in this case.

One of her sons became protestant in an effort to do better for himself and climb the ladder so to speak. The story goes that he came home to find Archbishop Dermot O’ Hurley, celebrating Mass with the family. So the horrible little bollox had his own mother arrested and jailed in Dublin castle. Back then jail was no picnic, its said that she could have secured her freedom by taking the ‘Oath of Supremacy’, but she refused and died at the age of 69, crippled with arthritis after spending three years in a damp dungeon…

Source: The Dublin Martyr’s | Ed Mooney Photography

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