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The Muse Calls at Midnight
Red Sky at Night, Writer’s Delight… Often I am wakened from deepest sleep by a figure sitting beside me on my bed. Watching. Waiting. Every time I do not expect it and wake with a scream.Tonight the figure did not disappear when I opened my […]
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Win a signed copy of The Other Side of the River
It’s been oh so quiet around here as we’ve been beavering away on next Friday’s official launch of our new Womancraft Publishing book, The Other Side of the River: stories of women, water and the world by Eila Kundrie Carrico. I have high hopes for […]
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Preserving Our Heartlands
Our inner landscapes mirror the outer landscapes in which we live. Eila Kundrie Carrico, The Other Side of the River I belong to this land. This I know as truth, each time I walk this stretch of sand between the land and the sea, is […]
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A Pebble for Your Pocket
What is it with stones? Perhaps you share my strange habit… of picking up pebbles and popping them in your pocket as you walk along a beach or beside a river. Every time I’m feeling overwhelmed, angry, in need of inspiration… I go down to […]
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Learning to Fly
The butterflies were born today. They had been in their chrysalises so long we were starting to think they were dead. Have you ever watched a butterfly be born? We did, over breakfast. After this mammoth transformation, they emerge, leaving their old skins behind – […]
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Dream Gathering 2014
Where does any funky Irish-based, festival-loving dreamer hang out? At the Dream Gathering of course. Held on the weekend of the Super Moon. Despite having flu I was NOT going to miss Dream Gathering 2014, which I had booked early bird tickets for the whole […]
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A Walk in the Blue
We headed out on an adventure yesterday, down to West Cork… bluebell woods are a spring family tradition… I remember walking the bluebell woods with MY granny. Now my girls get to do the same. This ancient woodland is right next to the sea with […]
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The Great Clearing
I walk the beach, the sky is blue, the air clear and still, fresh frozen February chill, the mist lying in the hollows of the valley, the skylarks singing as they begin their mating season: picturesque… But here too are signs, everywhere, of what has […]
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