#loveyourworld

                      The old Fenian Plot

                                           Glasnevin Cemetery

                                           Finglas Road

                                           Glasnevin

                                           Dublin 11

A Chairde,

People of Ireland, one and all, all who live here from wherever you began, for all of you are Irish if you sleep within the bosom of Éiru. We all came from beyond the sea of Manannán once too.

I am beyond the veil, so near that I can see your breath yet far away in time. Here within these walls of glasnevin all our eyes are watching through the night what you do and what you don't. We are watching injustices happen all around you as you stay silent. Are you waiting orders from the captain, one more word for signal token? Hush and listen, it is time again for you to whistle out your marching tune, stand up now and rise with the goddess moon.

Those who listened to my words and rose up again and again to fight for all men and women, young and old, to be free are well known to you and me. Despite learning how the men with pikes had suffered they proclaimed a new and equal Ireland for you all. Their vision was true and just and should have been a guiding light for all to follow and it was for a time until greed and avarice displaced it.

I don't regret my words, I meant them, I don't regret a bit of my short life or what I stood for. I still believe in love, romance and freedom for us all.  But you, my people, what do you believe in? What drives you forward if it is not justice for the poor and sick and trodden on? Do you not remember all who died before you to give you all of this? Is this web of lies and betrayal, brown envelopes and whispers in the corridors of power what we died and fought for? Do you believe those men in suits who bow their caps to masters in the banks and European Parliament? Hoorah me boys for Freedom, now you're shackled once again. Stand up and be together at the Rising of the Moon.

The cause of freedom and love for all is greater and more urgent now than ever, greater than when my neighbours died in famine or your ancestors died in workhouses. It is greater than when the hidden daughters and sons of Ireland died alone, in shame that wasn't theirs, within the walls of laundries and industrial schools, run by the new lords and ladies you replaced the others with. When I entrusted you to St. Patrick that was not what I imagined to behold.

The cause, for there always is a cause, is no longer just about our lady love this island, the cause is no longer at the old spot by the river, it is global now. If you want life to continue, children to be born and food for them to eat, if you don't want to hear the banshee's lonely croon echo loud through the land and waters, rise up and save our planet, now!

Be the blessed morning's light, be an example to the world as the Irish can and do and have done. That is your purpose here on mother earth. That is why you were entrusted with this land of saints and scholars, this magical place of hope and love. You do not own her, she owns you. There is no time, it is slipping away fast, species are dying by the day, babies are dying every minute, Mother Earth is writhing in pain and anguish. Get you ready quick and soon for we must stand together at the rising of the Moon.

I've twined the last leaf of my garland:

A lonely star shines in the sky,

And the heart of the poet is weary:

Oh Bright Eyes! Goodbye.

John Keegan Casey,

(Leo)

(Inspired by the life and work of John Keegan Casey (Leo), young Irish activist who died too young.)

It seems to me that the only way we can rapidly change all the horrors that have been happening in this world since time began and seem to be increasingly more hellish and apocalyptic is to change our whole mindset, our acceptance of this reality, our emotional attachment to it, our selfish ambitions, our core set of values and beliefs.  Our core is the part of us that is central to the existence of our character, our central part where everything that is us eminates from. We need to examine it consciously knowing that all that is around us is connected to how it works and what we do with it.

All of us, at the same time, or near as damn it, now, need to wake up. Everyone needs to realise they, themselves, are important but also that everybody else is important too, just as much. Every encounter, every thought, every word, every action should be done with the awareness of who and what it effects. We need to snap out of the unconscious mindsets and see all those around us, near and far, and be aware of how what we see, hear, do, create, destroy touches so many.

Imagine each and every one of us is on our own path and that path starts as we leave the womb, it spirals outwards. It spirals because we cannot go straight as we are constantly learning and relearning the vast aspects of each part of our existence and reality. As a baby the spiral is tight and to a human eye the distance between each ring on the spiral is invisible but it is there. That is because the intensity of what we need to learn and achieve to keep going on our spiral journey is so great in the first few years. As we journey on, the gaps widen and sometimes narrow again as we forget or lose consciousness and need to relearn. Imagine that spiral is you and your path until it fades when you leave this earth or does it ever fade? It is a spiral.

Now, imagine each and every person has their own spiral and they are all squished up together on this planet we call home, in the earth, air, water, atmosphere of the world, invisible to the eye but all around us. Each time a spiral touches, hits off, caresses, bruises, tears into another spiral it changes the journey of the two, three, millions it touches, None of us can see or hear it but it is there, our own unique spiral that changes as it gets influenced by other spirals through touch, sight, hearing, taste,smell, thoughts, emotions, life.

Now imagine every living creature and plant also has this spiral journey and every physical movement, every action, every thought, every breathe each of us take on our own spiral, bumps into, bruises, crushes, tears, caresses another spiral or many, each and every nanosecond that we live and breathe. That is how much we are all connected, that is why everything we do effects the world, that is why we must protect it, love it, because everything is us and we are everything. Everyone is important, you are important. Love yourself and your world.

Yes, everybody is important, every living creature and  every species is important, every plant, every word, every breath, every thought, every action and until we realise this our reality is going to become more horrific than we could ever imagine, worse than any horror film, end of the world book, in fact it already is for so many. Do you really think that children dying of hunger over the other side of the world is not effecting your own spiral journey? Are you so unaware to not notice that the tiniest change in your day has a rippling effect for the whole day, week, month? Everything effects everyone. Everything,

We all have endless possibilities of realities and we are responsible for them but we are also responsible for each others. That kind word you gave without a thought made someone stand taller and stronger for the day ahead, That brutal punch you gave in anger knocked more than a tooth out of that person and all connected to them. That book your wrote that reached billions of people all over the world didn't just give you a comfortable life, it entered the spirals of many and changed lives everywhere albeit the change was so tiny we cannot see or touch it but the more who saw it the bigger the change. The hedge you cut so brutally snuffed out the lives of so many creatures. That warm, loving hug you gave your child this morning spread out and touched those who met them later. Each good or bad thing that we do does not just change our own journey, it changes the journeys of all we come in contact with, however we come in contact with them.

Consider the many crises of the world, let's pick the current virus that is rapidly spreading. Each sneeze not contained spreads it, each unconscious act of travel brings it out to the world, each hand not washed, each person not told of the fever their neighbour is having spreads it further and further. This is unconscious reality, people acting without thinking or noticing how they effect those around them. Consider the homeless numbers ever increasing. Each person who buys up a property they don't really need, they're not going to live in, they want for their own personal economic growth is adding to it albeit not as much as the vulture funds snapping them up for as little as possible to pass on to investors far away and how did they get to do that and who has shares in their companies? Everything is connected and everyone effects everyone else.

We all need to move away from the thought process that self profiteering, self gratification, selfish deeds are the way, none of that is really putting yourself first, it is destroying your core, your inner goodness, it is a distraction from reality. In fact for all of us to really achieve self- actualisation, realise our full potential, utilise our talents and be fulfilled properly we need to understand that we are all part of the one beautiful world, one wonderful eco-system, each and every part as important as the next. We need to accept our responsibility to the world and know that all that we think and do effect so many more than we can ever imagine.

It is everyone's responsibility and even if you insist on remaining selfish about it and consider only yourself first your spiral, your journey, is still being caressed and loved and touched by everyone else so it will change even if you try to stop it. More and more people are waking up to this and acting on it. If your spiral can effect others so can theirs and hopefully there are more willing to care and change than not.We can consciously change our reality easily if we so wish all we need to do is remember always that everything is us and we are everything. Everyone is important, you are important. Love yourself and your world.

Today was an early start, 5.55am to be precise as I woke 5 minutes before the alarm. My eldest son needed a lift to work. It's an interesting, quite loud, time around my house as the six swallow nests awaken and the Magpie neighbours have a little tussle. The dog got so excited because she remembers a time long ago when I used to get up at this early hour to run with her but I stopped that malarky. We brought her with us and off we went.

When we left the young man who is helping us finance his future by working as many hours as he can get, bless him, his sister did the same, good people, the dog and I decided to visit Brí Leith for an early morning stroll. It was a misty, otherworldly morning.

No person was around but there was lots of life none the less. Nature was awakening in vibrant sounds, smells and colour. I noticed how our dog noticed everything, running and stopping and sniffing and searching, her curiosity never disappears so I joined her in the searching and noticing. While we were rooting around a rather large Bird of Prey swooped down so close to us, an experience I've never had before and I feel so privileged to have had the experience. I'm not sure what it was, perhaps a Sparrowhawk? A Falcon?

We returned to the car. I had received a text that my sister was in the area wondering if I wanted a walk at 8am so I cut our meandering short and came home to have a coffee and wait. The sun was rising higher and shining brighter.

We went on the longer walk, did the new Brí Leith Walk and we chatted and noticed wild raspberries, fireweed, wild chamomile, bilberries, baby oaks and rowan popping up. Then we spotted the Bird of Prey again in the distance, watching us from a high tree. He decided to swoop and dance in the air for us and disappeared again before we could identify him or photograph him.

We talked about our own identity and how there is so much instinctive knowledge within us if we listen to it, how she found wild strawberries on a recent walk just because she noticed some busy tiny birds coming in and out of a hedge and she investigated, she followed their lead. We should always follow nature's lead.

Later on this same day my little dog was busy and noisy in the sitting room and I discovered a tiny wren trying to get out. There wasn't a window open so did she come down the chimney or was she there all night? I opened the windows and tried to coax her out. She landed on my hand quite a few times before she left. They're meant to be so shy. I guided her out with the help, or hindrance, of my younger two and dog. I feel blessed by her presence and by the way she landed on my hand. Another first.