The one who survives by making the lives of others worthwhile
She’s coming apart right before my eyes
The one who depends on the services she renders to those who come knocking
She ‘s seeing too clearly what she can’t be
What understanding defies

She says:

I need not to need
Or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness
And won’t let go
I need not to need
I’ve always been The Tower
But now I feel like the flower
Trying to bloom in snow

She turns out the light anticipating night
Falling tenderly around her
And watches the dusk
The words won’t come
She carries the act so convincingly
The fact is sometimes she believes it
That she can be happy the way things are
be happy with the things she’s done
And yet…

I need not to need
Or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness and won’t let go
I need not to need
I’ve always been The Tower
But now I feel like I’m the flower trying to bloom in snow

Reach out but hold back
Where is safety?
Reach out and hold back
Where is the one who can change me?
Where is the one

I feel like I’m the flower trying to bloom in snow
The danger and the power
The friend and the foe.

You saw sagacious solomon
You know what came of him,
To him complexities seemed plain.
He cursed the hour that gave birth to him
And saw that everything was vain.
How great and wise was solomon.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
Its wisdom that had brought him to this state.
How fortunate the man with none.

You saw courageous caesar next
You know what he became.
They deified him in his life
Then had him murdered just the same.
And as they raised the fatal knife
How loud he cried: you too my son!
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
Its courage that had brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.

You heard of honest socrates
The man who never lied:
They werent so grateful as youd think
Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried
And handed him the poisoned drink.
How honest was the peoples noble son.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
Its honesty that brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.

Here you can see respectable folk
Keeping to gods own laws.
So far he hasnt taken heed.
You who sit safe and warm indoors
Help to relieve out bitter need.
How virtuously we had begun.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
Its fear of God that brought us to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.

I commented and covered a lil while back about the Christian Brother’s schools being handed over to a lay run trust and now we have this news yesterday.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhgbqlgbmhmh/

Archbishop willing to relinquish control of schools

The Archbishop of Dublin has reiterated his willingness to divest some primary schools of their Catholic patronage if that is what parents want.
The Archbishop of Dublin has reiterated his willingness to divest some primary schools of their Catholic patronage if that is what parents want.
Speaking at an education conference in Dublin today, Diarmuid Martin said he believed ways could be found to extend the role of other patronage models.
He said he had no ambition to be in charge of schools against the will of parents.
The Catholic Church currently controls more than 3,000 of the State’s 3,200 primary schools.
Today’s conference is discussing new ways to manage primary schools in an increasingly multicultural and secular Ireland.

Meanwhile, Education Minister Batt O’Keefe has announced that a new model of patronage will begin on a pilot basis in Scoil Ghrainne Phibblestown and Scoil Choilm in Porterstown, Dublin, this September.
These national schools will take in children from all religious and non-religious backgrounds.

And this today…

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhgbqlididql/

Most parents want state-run schools
30/06/2008 – 07:42:11
Almost three quarters of parents would prefer their children’s primary school to be run by the State rather than religious orders, according to a survey being published today.
The Red C study, commissioned by the Irish Primary Principal’s Network, found 72% of parents would prefer state-run schools, with equal status afforded to all religions.
More than half of parents with children under 15 also said they would like to see some of the time currently used for religion being re-allocated to other subjects.
Just over half of parents believe religious instruction should be taught in the classroom during school hours.

It’s going to be an intresting few years to follow…

Comedian George Carlin dies at 71. 🙁

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2339172520080623

There are a lot of people this side of the Atlantic who don’t know of the man and his work and only know his face from Kevin Smith movies, there would never been a Keven Smith it wasn’t for George Carlin.
Dying at 71 of a heart attack is not a bad way to go and the man did leave his mark upon the world
and the more people that hear his material and enguage with it and think then they and hopefully the world will be the better for it.

Official lego sweets by kelloggs cos we should be teaching children to try and eat plastic blocks…..

watch?v=RY1Bl4nfpdA

I’m trying to tell you something about my life
maybe give me insight between black and white
and the best thing you’ve ever done for me
is to help me take my life less seriously
it’s only life after all
yeah

well darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
and lightness has a call that’s hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I’m crawling on your shores

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
there’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
and the less I seek my source for some definitive
(the less I seek my source)
the closer I am to fine
the closer I am to fine

and I went to see the doctor of philosophy
with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
he never did marry or see a b-grade movie
he graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
got my paper and I was free

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
there’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
the less I seek my source for some definitive
(the less I seek my source)
the closer I am to fine
the closer I am to fine

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
to seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
and I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
and I went in seeking clarity.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
we look to the children, we drink from the fountains
yeah we go to the bible, we go through the workout
we read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
there’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
the less I seek my source for some definitive
(the less I seek my source)
the closer I am to fine
the closer I am to fine
the closer I am to fine

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhgbgbeyqlql/rss2/

Brothers hand over running of schools to lay trust

18/06/2008 – 12:37:38
The Christian Brothers are formally handing over management of their 96 schools throughout the State today.

The move brings to an end two centuries of active involvement in the schools by the Brothers.

The Edmund Rice Schools Trust is a charitable organisation run by lay people.

It will take over the running of 59 secondary and 37 primary schools from September 1.

While it’s a start the schools will remain with a catholic ethos but it’s a start but there is a cynical part of
me that wonders how much of this is a legal move related to the abuse cases of students in those school
by christian brothers over the last 50 years.

Yeah so I am a citizen of the interweb and my pc is my hub and home.
My morning routine currently runs like this.

Wake up.
Get up.
Turn on pc( or ‘wake from standby mode).
Get to the bathroom.
Wake kids.
Log on to pc ( leave windoze to boot).
Go get breakfast for kids.
Put coffee on.
Remind the kids of what they need for today.
Make lunches.
Pour coffee.
Herd kids upstairs to get dressed.
Sit at pc reading news feeds, sipping coffee and monitoring kids progress,
pausing to brush hair and straighten collars and being their speaking clock,
until I get hugs and they leave for school.

This morning the pc didn’t boot, hell it didn’t get through the bios checks.
I did the turn it off and on several times while looking at it forlornly with my coffee.
I turned on the radio to catch the news but it’s just not the same, it’s too slow.
I read a fair speed of knots and the adds on the radio and the sound bites of news only
served to wet my appetite and frustrate me. I prefer my news raw as possible off “the wires”
with my coffee.

I got on with the rest of my routine after all the coffee and news is to keep me distracted
while the kids preform their ablutions and get themselves dressed for the day.

But my pc is not just my connection to the web and the world; it is also music.
At that time of the morning is usually something from fantasia,
bright with a certain tempo that the children bounce along to and out the door.
Things move slower with out it, focus is lost and so are left shoes and instead of grinning at
each other brushing their teeth to the tempo there were arguments and jostling at the sink
and name calling and tears and all before school. They did notice and ask what was wrong with my pc when they were saying goodbye to me and expressed their concern for it and me with a second hug.

After they left and I finished my coffee it was time to figure out what was wrong with it.

After about 10 mins I knew it was the motherboard and reckoned it was the damn warm weather as
I had never gotten around to adjusting the fans up for it being summer and decided to
turn it off and on again one more time before disconnecting the tower from the cluster of cables
at the back so I could open it up.

I defaulted to my main profession and to what I had seen my Dad do so many times over the years,
I swore at it, gave it a good thump, but a technician’s thump right above the fan and lo and behold,
she booted, trough set up, bios and then the os set up and sat there with the curser blinking cheekily waiting for me to log in as if she had been playing possum for the last hour.

So I have been giving her a lil tlc and hoping that this was a friendly warning and not the start of trouble but damn it I am going to have to give her a name now.

watch?v=CUnm2FVXsLM

http://www.darklight.ie/

Darklight 2008: The Future Is Now
Dublin June 26 – 29, 2008

This year’s Darklight Festival is a four-day event celebrating cutting-edge film, animation, art and technology, offering an eclectic series of screenings, seminars, workshops and special events at a series of Dublin venues.