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The Universe, history, culture and everything.
Went for a walk with my son, as he’s not been out of the house from when he got home from school on Friday. Like me he prefers to go for a walk at night, when it’s quieter. We enjoy the dark and the cool. It was a perfect evening for star gazing, a clear sky, not to cold, so we could stand for a while and look up.
He’s now old enough that he’s pointing out to me the constellations he knows and the
many names and the tales associated with the names, which makes me proud he remembers and it’s strange to be standing beside him and have him as tall as me.
He is also at the stage were I can talk more about the Irish historical political and cultural meanings behind Ursa Major, esp as he will be doing Seán O’Casey in school.
I hope we never stop having discussions about the universe, history, culture and everything.
The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing?
The Dindshenchas of Brug na Bóinde, Boyne Valley, Co. Meath
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Remember Rose!
REMEMBER ROSE: A Song For Choice
© Sandy Rapp 1989Rosie Jimenez finally turned up dead;
So the paper said in Texas.
Finally turned up dead, after Medicaid
Restrictions took her choice away.Televangelists and their politics
Made Jenny Jimenez an orphan.
Praying in the light, bombing in the night,
They wave their roses red but Rose is dead.Chorus:
Get your laws off me;
I’m not your property.
Don’t plan my family;
I’ll plan my own.
I don’t want to be,
In your theocracy;
Remember liberty, REMEMBER ROSE.Many more will go by the way of Rose
And the ones that went before her.
Unless a course is set, present and direct,
Because “a chill wind blows”
And Rose is dead.Chorus:
Get your laws off me;
I’m not your property.
Don’t plan my family;
I’ll plan my own.
I don’t want to be,
In your theocracy;
Remember liberty, REMEMBER ROSE.
Holloween and Community.
I’ve not been blogging much of late, that is due to getting involved more in my local community.
I’ve recently become a member of the Board of Management of my local community center and a member of the events committee. We started small with a end of summer disco when the kids went back to school and
have work our way up to more ambition event.
Today was one of them. It went well I am shattered, we had two fire tenders, one from the civil defense who let the kids climb on board and use the mini hose and one from the on call Dublin fire brigade who, who did a talk on safety at Holloween. We had the order of Malta ambulance and the kids got to be strapped down on the strecher and the Community Garda came with a Van and the kids got to sit in the driving seat and be locked in the back.
This time of year our emergency services can face a lot of flack when they are called out esp Holloween night, hopefully some of the out reach we did today will mean there will be less of that in years to come.
Then we had the disco and face painting, colouring in competition, costume competition. We had over a 150 kids attend it was a great community even I got called the Pumpkin lady by the kids due to my T Shirt. It was very worth while. And I am so going to veg out and watch scarey movies wiht my kids for the rest of the evening and have a drink or two.
College, Condoms and Choice: A student’s view on the Abortion Debate.
Abortion Support Network takes it’s 1,000th call.
Abortion Support Network is run by a group of volunteers and is a registered charity. They take calls from people in Ireland who need to travel to the UK for an abortion and can’t afford to.
They offer help & support, from a place to say to a grant towards the cost. Needless to say with austerity they have had many more desperate people ringing them.
They recently took their 1,000 call. 1,000th desperate pregnant people have rang to talk to a complete stranger to beg for money so that they could try to travel to the UK. They have already done things like, returned presents, not payed bills, sold what ever they could to try and raise the money.
Abortion Support Network can only help if it keeps getting donations. The Abortion Rights Campaign has often had collections to try and help, there were donation buckets at the March4choice after party. But if you can please consider donating to Abortion Support Network over the next few months. You never know when someone you know might need their help.
https://www.abortionsupport.org.uk/get-help
Please call, text or email us to get more information, or discuss your circumstances:
Phone: +44 (0) 7897 611593
Please leave a message and we will call you back if there is no one to answer when you call.
Email: info@abortionsupport.org.uk