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March 15, 2019

St Patrick's weekend. IRISH.

Happy St Patrick's day weekend to you all.
The one day or weekend of the year that everyone remembers Ireland and many wish to be Irish and even the Irish themselves get with the traditions.

What is it like to be Irish? What does Irish mean to anyone? Times have certainly changed from the days of just a bunch of Irish celebrating our patron Saint and having a visit to a parade and waving our little shamrock on a stick or little flag.

Being Irish has its benefits of being a valued member of the world and the Irish passport does get you in to countries and makes you very welcome around the world. Why wouldn't it? A massive piece of being Irish means welcoming others. An expression is cead mile failte romhat (caid mila fall~Che wrote) meaning a hundred thousand welcomes to you.
So yes our welcoming has always been a huge piece of who we are as people and made us welcome in the world.

We are patriotic and our patron Saint has always been St Patrick. This would be why so many around the world could refer to us Irish as paddies or paddys and as some of my friends recently posted around Facebook it is definitely not Patty 😅

Once upon a time being Irish meant we were just the inhabitants of Ireland and we all pretty much received the same education and similar goals of working hard and raising a family. These would be things that have a long standing in our history and for these reasons we ventured out in the world looking for more work.
You can check our history in your own country and you will see the Irish have been there for a long time too, building cities and houses and neighbourhoods more than likely. We sent the money home when we could like all migrant workers to make it better for the ones back home.

All weekend the Irish music will be heard and on Patrick's weekend even the Irish will pause more and listen to a bit of diddly eye music as some of us refer to it as. Drinking will take place in large amounts and the drink, oh yes the drink. A tradition and major piece of the Irish culture has always been the alcohol. There are many who do not drink of course, myself being one of those who has very rarely dabbled through adult life. The drinking though can get out of hand and it can be interpreted around the world that to be Irish and act Irish on St Patrick's day is to be as drunk as you can so you can get the full feeling of being Irish. Trust me it is not a requirement.

As our nation is a very old country in terms of history and traditions, it has been heavily influenced by religion and the teachings of Christianity. This would be where all this Saint stuff comes from and talk of how St Patrick wanted to spread the teachings of Christianity around the land of Ireland to the people. It is said he used the shamrock to explain what the Holy trinity was and used the three leaves as the metaphor. The shamrock became a national symbol of ours and an Irish emblem which is used widely to just represent us in the world separate to our country's flag. On Saint Patrick's day many Irish will wear shamrock on their collar or lapel and go to church and have the shamrock blessed.

Many others will say they are not only going to have their shamrock blessed with holy water but more importantly they are intending to have it drowned. This would mean getting shit faced drunk to mark the occasion. As they say in Ireland "any excuse for a piss up" which means a good session of alcohol consumption BTW.
There are never excuses needed for many Irish to spend all day in the bar and drinking pints of Guinness one after another. So some how in the middle of the religious calendar of lent, St Patrick's day occurs. What is lent. Lent is another Christianity thing to mark when jesus went 40 days and 40 nights without food and water in the desert, so lent comes along each year and many Irish give something up to show abstinence just like jesus did. Many give up drinking alcohol for these 40 days. But yup you guessed it, on St Patrick's day, it some how funnily is the day that everyone is allowed to take a break from lent and get shit faced drunk if they want and there ar no sin committed in "breaking lent". Isn't that a good laugh
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What does being Irish mean to you and what traditions do you still carry on? Your comments below truly invited.

How it has changed though as Ireland has grown out of poverty of the days of old and has become a country where people seek refuge in now and migrate to for their own building of a better life. Our history has been that we emigrated around the world and worried for our poorer family and friends back home in Ireland. Nowadays people are coming here as Ireland has grown and become a more stable and wealthy country ( all thanks to the European Union)
But that's too political and let's leave it alone. The fact still remains that Ireland has grown to be a country doing okay for itself.

With a multicultural society now and for the first time in its history St Patrick's day may be a little bit more diluted and not in the sense of alcohol drowning either. Just a holiday weekend in the depths of a harsh cold spring time. A day off work for many and a little chance to relax. Waving the flags may be less though many will wear a little green clothing to mark the day. Who has time for the pub and the session. These are becoming less and less too as work is too important and paying bills and keeping up, it is a different place in 2019.

Looking back the older generations probably had it better and though lack of monies and less world knowledge they did not need for much and were very content to sit back and just be Irish. The global connectivity has its effects on us all and though many around the world will mark St Patrick's day with a look to how Irish are they and remembering their roots, to feel a little more IRISH on the 17th of March. Some of the Irish will be just living away their life and feeling less Irish than they ever before.
Funny what global connections can do to people.

I for one am a proud Irish man and this is part of our being and our soul. Ireland first, irsihness first and then everything else is welcome.
Some of our political positions have moved very far from the roots of being Irish and have flipped the script on what cead mile failte actually means. But that's political so we leave it alone in writing.

Have a nice day where ever you are remembering the beauty of Ireland. The shamrock and everything green.
And here are a few little Irish word for you. The gaelic language.

Ta athas orm. (taw awhas orm) I have Happy. Or more simply, I am happy.
Ta ocras orm. (taw uck~ras orm) I have hunger. Or more simply, I am hungry.
Cead mile failte. (caid mila fall~Che) 100 thousand welcomes.
Agus slan leat. (Aug~us slawN latt) and good bye to you.
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Published on March 15, 2019 04:14 Tags: gaelic, history, ireland, st-patrick-s-day

March 8, 2019

Friday & it's March already. Thoughts

So let's leave all the book promotion to the side for a minute or two, nah! That would be silly. Okay. I have three books on my amazon page and I invite you all to download or get a paperback and as far as a story goes, well. There is too much to mention. Get ready for weekend reading that might blow your entire mind. 😉

On a totally different note, like WTF does be going on at all. Seriously like, I have seen a bearded man giving birth or some form or other of this transgender birthing thing float around the Internet, flash in front of my eyes 👁️👁️
I do not say YES r NO to this kind of thing as I am unsure inside my own feelings. I love the thought of a beautiful new baby being born, this is wonderful.
How and ever I wonder just like the vaping e cigs, is there enough study to support, like historical studies to support how the development of this child will be. I read from time to time that serial killers acted out on a rebellious or defiant type nature of going on killing sprees to avenge their mother's love or some weird concoction of twisted psychological issues. So how much study and history do we have to say this baby will be a stable human after never knowing what we have all known as a "normal" up bringing, normal only in the sense of my mother looked like my mother and my father looked my father.

This is not the only question I have for you Today. What the feckin hell is going on with the ch4 show about Michael Jackson and abuse and grooming.
Here we are some years after his death and the people who now stand accusing Michael, were the very ones who were in support of him before. Sounds to me like someone just stopped getting paid and found a new way to go for the big bucks. Am I shallow to say this, no not at all,.

I actually knew of a case of some abuse and accusations of abuse once upon a time and in it was a door opening to money. The abused saw how easy to get some money and so came back again and again until they had enough money. Why does it take abuse victims so long. Shame? Having been groomed and innocence taken and it took so many years? Why have waited until now? And now in a time where I cannot seem to filter enough content off my screens which involve all kinds of madness of attempts to justify paedophilia.
But because it is Michael everyone has gone bananas. It does not change how his music was always great and he was a super star like no other. Was he really a sicko instead of jack? I do not know.

So the pope and all his cronies have been openly admitting all kinds of scandalous mis treatment and horrific molestation of children for decades and they have definitely screwed up a lot of individuals. I do not hear such an outcry to abolish or remove from media anything religious or along the lines of Christianity and or Catholic in particular.

Perhaps all who were abused become transgender? Is that too ignorant of me. I have no idea.
Rights for this sexual identifications, rights for the other sexual orientations. All a bunch of hypocrisy really. Too many getting offended for one thing or the other. Why? Because the Internet likes to zap your brain full of nonsense and you learn to become more callous? Sure if you see enough it you will eventually become immune I guess.
The viral posts are always the more shocking and the one that grabs your emotions and gut reactions the best.
Why not make a viral situation of something a little more simple and main stream normal.

These are some thoughts of mine that I want to share with you as you head in to your weekend. No absolutely not to say this is me and my two cents, this is to ask you to think about em. Give it a thought and voice and share your own opinions about the topics and the world and the madness that seems to be bombarding everyone who bothers with any kind of online interactions.

To sum up and thanks for reading this far. We always had a saying when I was growing up. Do not believe everything you hear and only half of what you see. Meaning? Well figure it out, that what your brain is for right?
And the sum of it all.
It appears that grooming and paedophilia is only acceptable to the human race when it is administered by a member of a church group or well let's just call it priest. Sick and wrong isn't it?
Heaven forbid an idol of half the world would be accused when unable to defend themselves. Maybe we can learn so. Ewher ein the years to come a new documentary that it was all just a way to feed a drug habit and would have said anything. Who really knows. Seriously?

I like to think that I can introduce a thought to you and nothing more and to be honest I have learned many ways to remain closed to all such kinds of nonsense but I do understand there are many who have a voice on these and may not speak em. So here I am setting the ball rolling.
Go nuts.....
What I can see as a trend is a bunch of people jump on band wagons and they seem to jump off em just as quick. Your instant reaction to anything is jot who you are.
Children are to be protected by us all and for every type of situation that might rob them of their innocence. If you have had the misfortune, I am sorry for you. I believe you can be so much better now though, as having grown from it, well done. Do not let them get your gut reactions and continue to zap your mind.

Link to books.
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Published on March 08, 2019 10:38 Tags: church, life, michael-jackson, paedophilia, transgender-birth

February 27, 2019

OMG it's here 2~27

February is a spring month right? Well it always has been for me.
Like any good post around the Internet, I wanted to share a little piece of forever in my heart history with you.
Today February 27th. On this day in history 2013 the most wonderful and beautiful Patrick Lawrence Mc Nally Chacon was born.

Patrick had to be one of the most fun loving, happiest babies anyone could have ever met. He loved his food and always wherever he went he had something to nibble on in his hand. A tortilla, a cookie, a piece of toast. More often than not he had crawled his way to attack the press where he knew the cookies were but if the cookie jar was bare he would pull himself to his feet and demand with one hand holding on to the press door and the other reaching for the counter, he would be making some noise that sounded exactly like he was saying "my, mine, my" and clenching his fingers in and out in his extended hand. Not crying or not in any tantrum form just a simple demand for bread.

We never heard Patrick speak but he understood whether we spoke to him in Spanish or in English, by the time he could actually walk well by that time no press in the house was ever safe and he could be found at 7 am happily plonked on the floor in the kitchen happily eating away out of a cereal box.

To let me know he wanted to keep his routine one morning, he came to me in the sitting room with a towel draped over his shoulder and held out that hand of his flicking in and out the fingers, a small fist and then open palm "my mine my" it sounded like. It was world Cup time and I was watching the early game soccer match. What on earth could he be doing and so as he beckoned me I got up he turned and walked, the cute toddler waddle back down the hallway and stood outside the bathroom door. Of course he was up and he wanted his shower.
Just barely 1 year old and he was demanding I shower him as it was morning time and that's what he wanted. He knew already how important keeping his skin soft meant and heaven forbid daddy might watch the match at this hour of the day.

February 27th.
To let you know why I have released my second book in February this year is because to me February is Patrick's month and that is just the way it is.
Patrick died at 1yr and 4 months old and today marks his 6th birthday.
It is a difficult day to mark on the year's calendar but it is with the fondest of memories the tears roll down my cheek.

Patrick daddy still Loves you with all his heart. Share a thought and pause in your day for Patrick today on his birthday.
XoxooxoX
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Published on February 27, 2019 00:31 Tags: baby, books, life, love, memories, patrick

February 21, 2019

Change your life, what can?

Hi folks happy Thursday today. Maybe you are reading this on a different day so happy _______, day to you.
First off let's do some promotional and get it out of the way.
I released my new book on February first, its called 17 & Life (a major crossroads or just a simple intersection) if you want to share any of it please do and feel absolutely and totally with all welcomes to use hash tag #17nLife.
It is my second book self published and out there in the world for your reading. I will leave a link at the bottom.

Soooooooo. Why write it? I want to help you change your life for the better. That really is as simple as I can put it really.
Why help you or even how?
It is really like that movie Taken with Liam neeson. I have a acquired a different set of outlooks and opinions and ways of healing myself over the years that it feels only, well almost criminal not to share them with you.
I would hate to think I would ever be pushy to influence any one person's opinion and so I write it all out and leave it for you to decide.
Insight into one's thoughts and how we feel would probably be a better description.

Why or how are the teaching of lessons so important?
I always said to myself as a young man well a teenager really "a fool learns from his mistakes" so what can that mean? Even a silly person can make a mistake and learn from it. I always believed in this saying as it has a second part that I have watched and followed closely, "a wise man will learn from the mistakes of others" this is the part I have hung on to for many many years. A fool can make the mistake and learn but being wise can mean watching others & make their mistakes count as your own lesson.

Mistakes I have many and I share them with you in my writing.
I also hope to be as suggestive as to bring about some of the questions I have had to ask myself and ones that definitely have made a great impact in changing my own life. If I could make some changes then of course I belive so can You.

Some of my thoughts in my new book may be a little deep or maybe too shallow for you. If you find it is only beginning to scratch the surface then we should begin to chat, it is not that I held back in writing the book but there are limits to how deep we can go and it may be only the real true hero in you that will want to go deeper.
In my first book it is a very raw a truthful story that grabs the living bejaysus out of people both emotionally and in their mind. I have had feelings of great accomplishment and guilt mixed together to have brought about emotion and change in people's lives by sharing my story.
I never wanted anyone to cry as they read but it just happens.

All in all if you like a good read and we are here on "Goodreads" then grab a copy of one or either of my books on Amazon.

Thanks for reading & I would love it if you can share this blog post. Maybe you have seen it through my twitter link, be sure to follow @TWOsonsTOOmany
If you are a Facebook friend be sure to like my book page on Facebook @TWOsonsTOOmany
As an independent author and self publishing it is your shares and readership that is so much appreciated and makes it why I am currently working on book #3.

Some links to the books they are both available on kindle and paperback.
Here are some kindle links. Oh yeah did I say, please share this post already... 😝
My author page https://amcnallyauthor.wordpress.com

Kindle link UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/17-Life-Cros...

Kindle link USA https://www.amazon.com/17-Life-Crossr...
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Published on February 21, 2019 04:24 Tags: change, emotions, life, memoir, reading

February 15, 2019

17 & Life, NEW release what's it all about

To write a book and release it was probably one of the greatest learning curves I have enjoyed in my ever twisting life. The learning is still very much ongoing but it has lead me to go ahead and do it all over again.
One of the key aspects has definitely been the how and when we use social media but I am going to leave that whole topic for another day. I will however ask that if you see a post from me on any platform promoting my new release memoir, 17 & Life, then go ahead and be sure to share the Post or link or whatever the post is. It is the only way I can reach your friends and even if my writing or reading books is not your thing, you may very well have friends who would love to read it. So it is not for me you do the sharing but for your friends. Funny how it all works really.

So enough about social media then.
17 & Life, what's it all about and why write another book?
I find myself thinking many different things about life and about how I actually function as a human being. Most of which is my own fascination about how I think and how I feel. The connected link between both thinking and feeling does fascinate me for sure. When I was a wee lad of only 17, I was faced with a real world problem. I found myself locked up in jail or prison, if you prefer.
It was at that exact time in my life that many questions of life entered my head, many thoughts and more so too many questions. These questions began to shape who I might become in my life and a learning curve was an understatement, a learning angle, even could be called a learning acute right angle perhaps.
Of course I am not 17 anymore and though many of us might wish for our youthfulness to be restored, I have found that the time I spent in jail and the questions I had to ask myself were definitely real adult stuff. I relay my story to you in a book to maybe raise a few questions for you the reader, who really knows? The point is, that it does not have to be exactly how it was for me at 17 and I have found that many of us can find ourselves at a crossroads in life at any age, I just happened to find myself there at a very young age.

To anyone who may have read my first book TWO sons TOO many, you probably found that my life has indeed had some acute twists and turns indeed. It is from the ever winding road I have been on that brought me to hit the keyboard again and write a second book. Maybe some may think there could not be any more to know or consider and that is why I began with, once again I have decided to write. The learning curve never ends.

17 & Life is a memoir and has a few stories of times where I found myself as a young man. I had to ask myself deep stuff just to begin to bring about change in my life. I totally understand that not everybody is forced to look at their life ever and for those of you that never have, well l I am jealous.
I have had the good fortune of having to take stock and re-invent myself some number of times now along my journey.

Come and share with me in my teen years, my story and see if maybe you have hit that cross roads in your life. I subtitled the book, "Major crossroads or just another intersection" quite simply, are our decisions always the massive life changing decisions or are some just a simple turn right or turn left option and have no affect over our life at all.
Can I say my time at 17 was the massive crossroads of life or was it just a simple fork in the road with no real influence at all? Maybe you can decide by grabbing a copy of my new title and see what you think.

I would appreciate if you can share the link to my book with all and everybody you know and even this post share it around, let some people get to know about
17 & Life by Aidan Mc Nally
I will put the link at the bottom. I really look forward to your feedback and of course just like any independent author I hope so much for your reviews and discussing your thoughts about my new book.
Have a great February & I hope to hear more from you all in the future. The new release is available at all amazon websites in kindle download option and paperback.

I have taken upon myself to make a donation to SADS Ireland for every paperback copy sold, so know you are doing a great thing by buying my book also. SADS stands for Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. So raising money for them is a very important part of my mission too.

States. https://www.amazon.com/dp/197826092X

Ireland & UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/197826092X
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Published on February 15, 2019 10:19 Tags: book, dublin, feelings, independent, ireland, jail, life, memoir, new-release, questions

February 2, 2019

Happy Saturday & hello February, New book

Hi guys, it is here February like who could imagine. Does it always just happen so fast or what?

I had a vision for 2019 and what it holds for me and a big piece has just happened this weekend. My new book is now fully available for download to kindle and paperback on all the amazon sites. I will provide you a link below.

So here we are in February, this month has it's own different reasons for being special. Definitely I wanted to shout out the new book and remind myself how important it is because my beautiful baba Patrick's birthday is this month too.

I will be on the blast and marketing trail for the next couple of weeks and this is where I ask you all to help out with, if ya see a post for "17 & Life" the memoir of the year by me..... Hahaha. Be sure and give it a share or a Retweet. These are the parts of being an independent author that counts on you to share and help.

Thanks a bunch and watch out for, 17 & Life
Here is the link below
https://www.amazon.com/dp/197826092X
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Published on February 02, 2019 02:44 Tags: independent, kindle, life, memoir, new-release

January 13, 2019

2019 the new year for U & Me

Here it is, no wait a minute shouldn't that say "it is here"
Yeah it is here now 2019, wow!
Didn't see that coming really and yet here we are, all revved up and nowhere to go. Or do we?
My slogan for the year is
2019 I will allow nothing come between _______. & ________. Fill in the blanks for yourself. Make the year somewhat goal orientated and get to those achievable goals for the year.

What does it mean for you and for me. I plan to release another book and am continuing on my writing quests to complete a third book this year. So a little few goals of my own set for myself.
What do you have planned and where will 2019 take you?
Can it mean that you will be the same or will you be different. My belief is that you will be the same as we only change in tiny tiny ways throughout our entire lives so with that in mind I believe we will all be the same.
You may however change jobs or relationships or move city or town and live somewhere different, yes of course these things are all possible. My hope for all or you is of course that whatever you do in the outside world that inside you remain the same inside with only one little tiny difference, you allow that piece of you out to the world and let us get to know you.
The person you are on the inside is who you are and we want to know you so much, it really isn't even funny.

Why focus on the person on the inside for the year? Because probably that is the most important person we are ever going to meet.
Yes we, meaning me and you. I hope for this year to get in touch with myself on the inside and allow more or me out to the world. This is who I am and I am the most important person in my life. Try saying that to yourself a few times.
It can work wonders for you and best of all is we get to meet you and our lives become enriched too by you becoming more open and wonderful with us.

I hope to interact with you all throughout the new year and look forward to sharing more of myself with you.
The new book coming this year is Seventeen & Life (17 & Life)
A major crossroads or just another intersection.

A coming of age memoir which one hopes will provoke a little thought around the world and maybe you can ask yourself the same question along the way of taking the read.
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Thank you so much and Happy New Year to you all
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Published on January 13, 2019 05:38 Tags: coaching, family, life, love, relationships, self

December 20, 2018

The week before Christmas

So what is it all for ? The rushing around and suffering through longer traffic delays.
Sometimes it is nice to give a gift in Christmas to a friend or for family and see their face smile. This is of course the reason we do it right ?

My wondering thoughts are do we even stop and think why we give gifts or why do we spend longer time in lines at the shops and bumping into people along busy shopping aisles. Do we do it for them to show them that we thought about them and consider their friendship so valuable that we want to show our gratitude through a gift.

Do we do it for ourselves? Is giving someone a gift something that makes you feel better about yourself ? That you actually took some time out to think of another person amidst your busy life. Does it give you a lift to know that a special friend or family member will be smiling when they open your gift and for this reason you cannot wait to see their face ? Seeing their face can bring to you some joy and so in theory you gave them a gift to satisfy yourself. Pretty trippy isn't it?

I have made a few videos as opposed to writing a blog post every month but of course the week before Christmas is a time for a lot of thoughts. If you would like to check out any of my videos you can find them on my book Facebook page by typing in TWO sons TOO many in the search bar. If you can give a like and a share over there to any of my video posts, well of course they are greatly appreciated.

So the week before Christmas and many are less fortunate than you. Some may think that is not really possible and not many have it worse than you right now. Well if you have an electronic device that you are using to read this then you are doing alright and also have an internet connection, you are far ahead of many for such comforts. Though having these things may not mean you have any happiness. Material things and the time it is of gift giving is also very well but who might give the gift of happiness?
Maybe the gift of happiness is a bit too dreamy or something, how about we call it "peace".

Peace, what does it mean to you or me or anybody? Can happiness be something that is a far stretch and for many who think happiness lies in gifts or material items then maybe you are mistaken. Many want some peace and happiness and have all the material wealth you can imagine but they know no peace. They are never truly happy and find it hard to slow their minds down. So why do we get each other gifts? To make the other person happy usually. What if they just cannot be happy due to how they have some hard time feeling their way through life. What if even that they may have the hardest time ever, making noise in their head to go away. There are people who will spend Christmas in the streets, all alone and out in the cold, there is a possibility they have peace in their mind and happines in their hearts. We cannot judge or know how any individual feels and only the person we are ourselves on our inside. The private being of who we are. The inner self who is not happy buying presents for their friends or receiving for that matter. It is the person who struggles to find some peace in who they really are inside, this is the person I wish I could give a gift of peace to. The person who has difficulty to be happy, this is the person I wish I could give the gift of happiness to.

These are people who are worthy of all of our thoughts for a moment on this busy week of last minute shopping. People who I do not know by name or nor have I ever met, can you bring yourself to spare a thought for a stranger and send out into the world a thought of goodwill and seasons greetings?

Christmas for myself personally has not been anything other than a memory type occasion and the memories are sad ones and I am sure there are many people like me out there who are reminded each year at this time, that we wish we had our loved ones with us just for Christmas. This is something that could bring the ultimate happiness to our spirit and well being. If we could spend a little time with those we have lost in our lives we believe we could feel better or have a little taste of clarity in our thoughts.

There is no magical formula to find this happiness and peace in our lives and probably even a little harder around the Christmas holidays. So as I share a thought for you perhaps you can share a thought for me and then so on and so forth. Christmas can be a time where we send out into the universe some nice kind thoughts for those who may be in need of a little more than ourselves. All the while keeping in mind that it is ourselves who matter most
No there is nothing selfish about it. If we must be in the world then we must be focusing on ourselves first, we can offer love and joy and happiness to all around us when we can find it for ourselves first.

Have a wonderful holiday season.

I have just completed my second book and hope to have it out there and available soon. Until then, if you have never read my first one then check it out on Amazon . TWO sons TOO many
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Published on December 20, 2018 13:10

November 16, 2018

Birthday always seems so good

Birthday blues or birthday reds, what is your colour ?
I Have great reason to celebrate a milestone and mark this year's birthday with the fullest of celebrations, yet I will not. Why ? Yes you may ask, it or this day, today marks the birthday of my wonderful son Darra, he turns 22 today. The 16th of November.
It is on days like these something just seems different. A day where being daddy and thinking of my son just hits and pulses a little different through the heart chambers, is it love or pain or joy or what exactly ?
To explain better would be to fill you in that Darra died seven years ago and when he was only fifteen he was the bright spark of the future, not only for me but for many in all the circles he moved in. He was a champion child and a very soft natured but strong willed young man. He passed away from what they call Sudden Adult Death Syndrome more commonly knows as SADS. To me his father, this meant nothing as it only explained that his death was unexplainable.
So each year there are anniversaries and birthdays and well this day 16th of November marks the day that I became a father for the first time. I moved from just a guy to being daddy, what a day, I just will never forget it.
I wanted to share a thought for Darra today and for his mammy and his siblings and also all that knew him in his live and those who have learned of him since he has passed.
And of course to ask you to pause for a moment and remember that special day when you became a parent for the first time. It was a very joyous day for me and I think it probably was for you too.
Darra, today is your birthday, happy birthday buddy.

Share in a warm thought of parenthood today with me and take a moment to remember your own heart as it felt when your first child was born. No matter of life's troubles or stress today, take a moment to pause and enjoy this day with me, if even only for a second.
Life is so much more valuable.and or precious each and everyone year.
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Published on November 16, 2018 06:41 Tags: birthday, life, loss, love, parenthood, sads

November 4, 2018

It is now November

Here it is, a new video to come and check out some reading material and also some reasons to get involved.
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Published on November 04, 2018 13:15

Random thoughts by Aidan.

Aidan  Mc Nally
Some may be of my grief, some just things I notice. See what you think as inspiring your thoughts makes my day 😊🇮🇪
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