Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.
How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.
Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U. S.
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.
If I get invited somewhere I can never usually say no. And then I don't leave until I'm asked to.
Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.