Yvonne Aburrow's Blog, page 56
May 28, 2019
200 followers
I reached a milestone of 200 followers. Thanks everyone! Welcome to new followers, and thanks to old followers for continuing to read my stuff.
Special thanks to people who followed me here from Patheos or from my earlier blogs, Nemeton, Dance of the Elements, and The Stroppy Rabbit.
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May 27, 2019
Dublin Botanical Gardens
We stayed at the excellent Botanic View B&B near the Botanical Gardens for our last night in Dublin, so we were able to walk around the beautiful gardens. We saw a heron and a place where Wittgenstein used to hang out in the winter of 1946.
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Later we had dinner at the Brian Boru pub, which is near the canal, and is alleged to be where Brian Boru camped on his way to the Battle of Clontarf.
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May 26, 2019
Dublin Harbour boat trip
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On our last full day in Dublin, we took a boat trip to Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Dun Leary). It was lovely and we saw the place where the Battle of Clontarf was fought between Brian Boru, high king of Ireland, and the Vikings. We had lunch in Harry’s brunch bar and then got the train back into the centre of Dublin.
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May 25, 2019
Out and about in Dublin
We also visited Merrion Square (Oscar Wilde lived at number 1 and WB Yeats lived at number 52 and 82), and wandered about in the Temple Bar area, and central Dublin. I was very excited to see the Post Office with the Cuchulainn statue commemorating the Easter Rising 1916, as I’ve wanted to see it for a very long time.
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Me...May 24, 2019
Dublin Castle
While in Dublin, we visited the castle. My main reason for wanting to visit was that this was where the legalization of same sex marriage and the repeal of the 8th amendment were announced and celebrated.
But there’s so much more to the history of the castle. This was where James Connolly was imprisoned before being executed for his part in the Easter Rising, 1916. And in 1922 the last viceroy handed over the keys to Michael Collins. It is where the presidents of Ireland are sworn in.
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Notable and quotable 12
Posts that caught my attention this week.
Labels, power, and identityNimue Brown on how labels you choose yourself are empowering, and how refusing others’ labels and identities, and mislabeling them, can be disempowering and even dangerous.
“AtheoPaganism U”Want to deepen your AtheoPagan path? Check out the new AtheoPagan course, starting on 1 June.
The secret is, there is no secretTwo posts critiquing the idea of manifesting wealth or abundance, and suggesting that instead we should m...
May 23, 2019
Archaeology Museum, Dublin
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On Monday 20 May, we went to the archaeological museum in Dublin. It was amazing.
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Cup and ri...May 22, 2019
Knowth, Ireland
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On Sunday 19 May, we went to Knowth, a complex of burial mounds near Newgrange.
There is a large central mound surrounded by several smaller ones. The entrances are aligned on the sunrises of the spring and autumn equinoxes. This is interesting because it means they were able to identify the equinoxes. The main mound is 5000 years old. It is surrounded by many carved stones, one of which appears to be a lunar calendar, and another one seems to be a solar calendar. Several have spirals and s...
Greening your business
Ideas for greening your business. In the face of the climate emergency, we all need to do something.
Transport
Keep face to face meetings involving travel to a minimum — use Skype for Business or Zoom or similar tools instead.
Offer interest-free loans to your employees to buy season tickets for public transit, bicycles, or electric cars. If there is inadequate public transit in your region, lobby the regional government to build it.
Allow your employees to work from home wherever possible.
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Notable and Quotable 11
A roundup of inspiring posts.
Living in a sacred worldMark Green at the AtheoPaganism blog on the wonders of the beautiful world we live in. I’m not an atheistic Pagan but I very much appreciate the focus of AtheoPaganism on what we can sense and experience directly.
Experientially, we have mountaintops and forest walks. We have riversong. We have ocean waves and orgasms and the soft, warm glow of a hallucinogen coming on. We have the sweat of exertion and the exultation of dance, the thril...
