Why I swim – on taking the plunge, finding my pod and feeling alive
Why do I swim? Because it makes me feel present, connected, alive. Outdoor swimming is self-love Why do I swim?...
Why do I swim? Because it makes me feel present, connected, alive. Outdoor swimming is self-love Why do I swim?...
On Earth Day 2022 Let your promise be the dandelion that won’t be sprayed or mowed; the tree that won’t...
You don’t end up at Glassilaun by chance. It is a place you seek out. Seek it out, we did,...
St Patrick’s Day 2022 was simply EPIC! It started at 6am when I got out of bed for a sunrise...
Covid got me in the end. Just as midterm got underway and the government announced the lifting of the mask...
Imbolc Swimrise Imbolc. I mbolg, in the belly. In the belly of the sea, I bobbed Like a bottle carrying...
Here is, in no particular order, my top 10 books of 2021. It has been an excellent reading year, with...
November is my least favourite month of the year. The ever shorter days, the darker nights, the cold creeping in...
Sinuous Lough Muckno wrapped itself around the drumlins of Monaghan, and the beautiful light dappled through the trees in the...
And the winner of COP26 is… The fossil fuel industry!!! I borrowed this line from The Guardian because it perfectly...
This 👆 is my favourite photo of our family hike to the Spinc, in the Wicklow Mountains: my four acorns,...
One morning last October, after I’d finished reading Finding the Mother Tree, by Dr Suzanne Simard (the scientist who discovered...
I started learning Irish. Well, sort of. A few weeks ago, I signed up, nearly on a whim, to Scoil...
J’ai commencé à apprendre le gaëlique. En quelque sorte. Il y a quelques semaines, je me suis inscrite, presque sur...
I tried something different and went on a forest bathing walk. It was last December, in the beautiful woods of...
Il y a quelques mois, je me suis laissée tenter par une expérience inédite : le bain de forêt. C’était...
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