‘Life Imitates Art’

George Bernard Shaw once said ‘the real world does not exist. Men and women are made by their own fancies in the image of the imaginary creatures in my youthful fictions, only much stupider.’

We are SO freakin’ stupid.

We choose paltry beads of what we want to see in this milieu and yet the possibility around us is endless. From daily life we take only what we want- or rather, what we think we want. But do any of us actually really know what we desire? We are constantly changing. So what if we opened ourselves up to the idea of ‘infinitum’? To most, repression signifies a sense of control and stillness. A way of capturing the present, to usher the future and protect the past. Freud hit the nail on the head when he said that ego comes from the incapacity to accept reality.

‘Only repressed life is in time, and unrepressed life would be timeless or in eternity’ The Spectrum of Consciousness Ken Wilber

We are in fact, free.

So tomorrow-come to life with new eyes and open hearts. Food for thought. Merry x

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

‘Out of my need for knowledge I watched night create the day’

A line from Anna Karina’s 1965 movie, Alphaville

Good afternoon people of the world- I cheers to you with a wee mug of freshly brewed ginger and lemon tea I made a little earlier!

A blog, Mairéad…A BLOG? Well, I never saw this coming. I was always one of those people who peered into disparate virtual lives in a sort of covert need for transcendence, a mere onlooker secretly marvelling in the idea that no-one but me knew I had been there. But alas-here I am sitting in my living room in Derry (home) looking out at you from this strange blackened cylinder I know absolutely nothing about. What have I become? HA!

Well, here I am folks.

I am a firm believer in ‘if you start somethin’ you just gotta go for it’ so I promise you I will not approach this with trepidation. To do so would defeat the whole purpose of putting stuff online for the whole world to see anyway, wouldn’t  it?  So with this, you will get all of me- just like Ella said.

Look away now!

Things have been a bit higgledy piggledy over the last 8 weeks. I have made the ‘big move’ from London to Ireland after 7 years of living in the ‘big smoke’ -Scary but liberating. I can finally call home home again, something I haven’t been able to do in many years. My dad isn’t very well- and it was a shock to us all as it happened so suddenly. The prognosis is not a good one but in all his glory my paps is as positive as ever. What a rock star!  This move has brought a few personal trials for me too but as you can imagine, there is nowhere I’d rather be than here. My beautiful Northern Ireland.

As a family we are stronger than ever and have found our own way to cope with it all- just doing our best. We have all turned to a healthier way of life in adopting an alkaline, vegan lifestyle in an attempt to keep him as rosy-cheeked as we can for as long as possible. Can I get a ‘T.E.A.M”?

And so we march on through today and towards tomorrow, for that is all we have.

Ta ta for now.

Merry x