Modus Creativus

Not sure if that is actual Latin or Hogwarts Latin...but as I am not in the mood to actually look it up...there you go!

I have been in a most creative mood these past few days. Some of my many projects are nearing completion, some have been helped along, and one has just been started. I seem to have the inenviable plight of the artist who is forever starting new projects because the inspiration has ceased for the previous works...or I got bored with them...or the inspiration no where neared the outcome (overambition is my plague...either that or under acheivement) and so I gave up in frustration.

In today's news...Congratulations Senator Brown! I was so shocked! Massachutsets elect a Republican (and a conservative non-the-less)! Impossible was my initial response...but no! The world has been turned on its head I think...it is the only logical explanation!

Ah...well back to my projects...which shall remain un-named and un-numbered as I always make more of what I have started and then leave people to guess what happened to all that I was "going" to do...sigh...

Beauty in Motion

Since I first saw the world-wide sensation that is Riverdance, I have been enamored with Irish dance, both in its traditional form, and the modern interpretations of rich dance form. Jean Butler is a beauty and a master of Irish Dance. She glides across the floor as graceful as faerie born aloft upon nothing but the soft breezes drifting across the lakes and rivers of Ireland.

I found this lovely video while browsing Youtube.com the other day, and thought that I would post it so that you could enjoy this lovely piece. The video is entitled Blue and is performed and choreographed by Jean Butler. Music is Andy's Bar from the album Lemonade and Burns by Kila. Enjoy!

A Draught from the Pool of Friendship

Despite having some of the best friends in the world, it is possible to sometimes forget how much a person needs to share moments of their lives with their friends. Good friends are made, yet life invades and manages to split and divide us across the face of the planet on our varying paths of life. For a time, we walked side by side down the same glorious path mingled with laughter and tears, toils and bliss; the memories of which sustain our bonds of friendship through the trials of separation.

It has been far too long since our paths last converged, yet I am so overjoyed that they have at last managed to join up again, for a time however brief, at the wedding of my two dear friends, Sean McNally and Meghan Barylak in Cleveland this past weekend. My spirit is uplifted, and I feel a great challange to myself to work more diligently to cultivate the friendships that I have allowed to lapse after the Ave diaspora of 2006. With that said I am going to work at staying in better connection with my friends and hopefully, times are at last beginning to brighten and the dark days of my financial woes may be easing in the very near future...so hopefully I will be able to make some more visits, and more often.

I love all of you that I was able to share this past weekend with, wish more of your were there and that we had a longer, less busy time, to enjoy each other, however, I wouldn't trade this time for the world...Congratulations to Sean and Meghan...words fail to tell how happy I am for you both!

Unique as the Irish

I came across an interesting site today while I was browsing other things on the internet. I thought I would share it with whoever still reads this ole thing (I keep trying to get back into the habit of writing down things in here, but tis so difficult, despite being such an essentially simple thing to do). In Co. Cork, Ireland, a reforestation effort has been launched with a unique twist. Ireland is one of the least forested of all European countries, so to help with the costs of planting a bit of Ireland back to forest, a group of people in Ireland have launched a memorial program that honors a deceased loved one with a tree and a plaque planted in this forest of remembrance.

I think that it is something very interesting and unique, and sounds like a great thing to do, especially for us Irish-Americans, who would otherwise not leave any mark on the old country. If you want to check it out, I have provided a link...it's pretty cool and worth checking out!!!

Advent is Coming

Found this on Youtube.com today...and just wanted to post something for the sake of posting something, as I have not posted anything in FOREVER!

The beginning is a little boring, but once the song begins it is lovely. The Choir is from the University of Notre Dame.