Well Mom, it will be two years today I first posted to this blog, and thus was born The Temenos Journal. It was eight days after Tim’s death, and there I was all alone, staring out the window at an autumnal world. There was the lake, still in its calm cedar ringed glory, surrounded by things that would soon become a distant memory, I ventured out … Continue reading It’s Just Another Sunday
Walls for the wind And a roof for the rain, And drinks by the fire. Laughter to cheer you And those you love near you And all that your heart my desire! from the book ~ Irish Blessings Continue reading Irish Blessings
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, The foresight to know where you’re going, And the insight to know when you’re going to far! Irish Blessings Continue reading A Blessing for Sunday
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ MAY YOUR HOME ALWAYS BE TOO SMALL TO HOLD ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS. ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Continue reading Blessing for Sunday
When Irish eyes are smiling, Sure it’s like a morning spring. In the lilt of Irish laughter You can hear the angels sing. When Irish hearts are happy, All the world seems bright and gay. And when Irish eyes are smiling, They’ll steal your heart away! [Traditional Irish Folk Song] CITATION Irish Blessings Continue reading Blessing for Sunday
It’s easy to be pleasant When life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who can smile When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with years. And the smile that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through the tears. CITATION Irish Blessings Continue reading Blessing for Sunday
If Ever I’m A Money’d Man, I Mean, Please God, To Cast My Golden Anchor In the Place Where Youthful Years Were Pass’d Though Heads That Bow Are Black and Brown Must Meanwhile Gather Grey New Faces Rise By Every Hearth, And Old Ones Drop Away — Yet Dearer Still That Irish Hill Than All the World Beside; It’s Home, Sweet Home, Where’er I Roam, … Continue reading Blessing For Sunday
Calm be they sleep as infants’ slumbers! Pure as angel thoughts thy dreams! May ever joy this bright world numbers Shed o’er thee their mingled beams! Thomas Moore Irish Songwriter (1779-1852) CITATION Irish Blessings Continue reading Blessing for Sunday
May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright happy hours That stay with you all year long. CITATION Irish Blessings Continue reading Blessing for Sunday
Lov’d land of the bards and saints! To me There’s nought so dear as thy minstrelsy; Bright is Nature’s every dress, Rich in unborrowed loveliness; Winning is every shape she wears, Winning is she in thy own sweet airs… Thomas Furlong Irish Poet ( 1794-1827) CITATION Irish Blessings Continue reading Blessing for Sunday
May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow; May the soft winds freshen your spirit; May the sunshine brighten your heart; May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you; And may God enfold you in the mantle of his love. CITATION Irish Blessings Continue reading Blessing For Sunday
May the blessings of light be upon you, Light without and light within And in all your comings and goings May you ever have a kindly greeting From them you meet along the road. Continue reading A Blessing for Sunday
May the lilt of Irish laughter Lighten every load, May the mist of Irish magic Shorten every road, May you taste the sweetest pleasures That fortune e’re bestowed, And may all your friends remember All the favors you are owed. Continue reading Blessing for Sunday
by PaulaB 