Last Friday I was walking along the canal, as I often do with my dog Seamus. Just after the Portobello Bridge, there are some lovely willow trees. I watched the branches graze the surface of the water, and it looked so much like they were caressing it and the glittering sunshine. https://videopress.com/v/8ZAuTVCz?preloadContent=metadata I started to … Continue reading 6×6 Week 2: Touch
Author: OSM
PhD Student in Theology
A perfect day (6x6_01)
A perfect day has a particular kind of ease. I don't just mean sleeping late and being fed grapes while lying supine on a chaise lounge. Effort can be involved, like chopping wood or walking up a hill; the ease is more a sense of being in alignment with time, and what is. Time is … Continue reading A perfect day (6x6_01)
20 minute grumpy middle aged woman sketch
In internal family systems based therapy, I am learning how to identify defenses against pain. I'd guess I've had ADHD at least since secondary school, but I was diagnosed at 39. I am conceptualizing the symptoms (time-blindness, executive dysfunction, procrastination, relentless distraction) as some of my defenses against pain, personifying them (what do they look … Continue reading 20 minute grumpy middle aged woman sketch
COMP(on)LINE 25 October 2020
Compline with Friends (formerly Coffee Hour with Friends) has been a very lightly facilitated, gently theological online space, initiated 26 March 2020, with the encouragement of dear, beloved, late Glenn Jordan. It meets online 8:30-9:30pm, Irish Time. The link is https://meet.jit.si/ComplineWithFriends2020 (apologies to anyone who tried to join last week — the link automatically went … Continue reading COMP(on)LINE 25 October 2020
6×6 Week 1: A Perfect Day
When the first lockdown was announced in Ireland, I met it with a mixture of dread and wonder. My 43 year old brother Rareș died very suddenly in January (from what I am now persuaded was a COVID-19 related heart attack --- at the time the virus was generally assumed only to attack the lungs), … Continue reading 6×6 Week 1: A Perfect Day
COMP(on)LINE 18 October 2020
Compline with Friends (formerly Coffee Hour with Friends) has been a very lightly facilitated, gently theological online space, initiated 26 March 2020, with the encouragement of Glenn Jordan. It meets online 8:30-9:30pm, Irish Time. The link is https://meet.jit.si/ComplineWithFriends2020. The password changes weekly, depending on the author whose words I am sharing. This week it is … Continue reading COMP(on)LINE 18 October 2020
compline/ peace hour/ rest hour/ song of steps/ initium noctis
Coffee Hour with Friends has been a very lightly facilitated, gently theological online space, initiated 26 March 2020, with the encouragement of Glenn Jordan. Now that it takes place on Sunday evenings, it doesn't feel quite right to call it Coffee Hour. So thinking about calling it something like Compline or Rest Hour (from Wikipedia: … Continue reading compline/ peace hour/ rest hour/ song of steps/ initium noctis
Revolution Is Not a One Time Event (link)
listing/ listless/ listening
Reasons to do a PhD that seem perfectly normal (but many probably aren't):1. to ease a move to another country2. in lieu of universal basic income 3. to be diagnosed with ADHD (otherwise costly process--question of whether I would seek the diagnosis or medication if not doing a PhD... debatable)4. health insurance and free mental … Continue reading listing/ listless/ listening
A list of infinitives (during a week of miraculous virtual encounters with Martina Evans, Raymond Antrobus, Colette Bryce and Cathy Sweeney)
To strip language (Simone Weil, Fanny Howe, Kay Ryan)To make it hold (Kay Ryan)To make it whole To make it holy (or know that it is, already) To slow it downTo slow downTo forget it To remember the bodyTo let the body speak To mishear (and misread)To practice To decontaminate it (M. NourbeSe Philip)To grind … Continue reading A list of infinitives (during a week of miraculous virtual encounters with Martina Evans, Raymond Antrobus, Colette Bryce and Cathy Sweeney)
feeling is mutual 