I’m not sure how anyone else measures life successes, but Umar from Multi Pizza Curry and Kebab, with whom I share just a few words of compulsory English, offered me a chai and a sweet made by Atiq’s mother while I waited for my wrap. When I told him he’d made my day, he said, … Continue reading 6×6 week 6: Home in Elsewhere →

Inspired by three amazing women in my life, I started running again exactly 5 weeks ago. I am a very (VERY) unambitious runner in terms of speed, but I have this deep wish to be able to run steadily for a long time if I would like to. 5 weeks ago the thought of doing … Continue reading 6×6 Week 5: Being a Body →

THE PROMPT: a). In part because the poet and maker Éireann Lorsung recently offered this sweet, sweet collaborative invitation, and in part because it's the time of year when it's dark before you know it, and there are long evenings to fill with... well, it's week 4 of lockdown in Ireland, so how are you … Continue reading 6×6 Week 4: Coziness →

During the last week I've taken advantage of some of the sunnier moments to take longer walks along the canal. With all the Souls and Saints and Samhain days behind us, it's officially late in the season now. The leaves on the tiny ash growing in a pot in the tiny back garden turned golden, … Continue reading 6×6 Week 3: Color →

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 →

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) →

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 →