Material World
- Strange how coffee tastes differently when you think you are drinking tea.
- Every second day I seem to find myself explaining the miracle-in-waiting that is Print On Demand. Perhaps this short video demonstration might do it: Meet your future bookstore.
Spiritual World
- Fielding questions from my 5-year-old, e.g.: “Do angels have childhoods?†(This led to some lively discussion on Facebook).
- Disease is a dark consequence of sexual desire; organized religion dark consequence of spiritual desire. (After De Motherlant: this was the product of some lively discussion on Twitter).
Television
- Documentary on David Hockney (BBC). Restless heart, restless mind, restless eye.
- ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ (Anderson). Formal delights, gentle humour, choice tunes: an enjoyable foray into the world of my in-laws :)
Tennis
- watching men’s final, unnerved by ‘Wimbledon Effect’ of unchanged court livery that I am back in the 70s, watching as a boy.
- Difference between being a kid and a grown-up: a kids thinks “Yeah, I could take Federer…”
Ireland
- Amazing how little fuss Loyalist decommissioning innire is causing in Irish/UK media but, if you remember the bad old days, it’s “momentous”. The first day I set foot in Northern Ireland, the headline on a local paper quoted a loyalist promising “One Catholic, One Bullet”. Beyond even the images of the Chuckle Brothers, Paisley and McGuinness, the shift in thinking in Loyalism is a profound barometer of political progress.
- Could we airlift the Bernie Madoff judge and jury over to Ireland please? The American Justice System gave him 150 years. Wrongdoers with juice in these parts not only tend to go unpunished they often emerge with a golden handhake and a generous pension.
- Problem with Green Party in Ireland is that they are powered by ideology. What is Fianna Fail’s ideology? Power.
Joys of Self-Employment, Ch. LXXXIV
- Impromptu flashmob with the kids, dancing to ‘Funkytown’ by Lipps, Inc.
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