Hi everyone, Hope you all got a chance to enjoy this beautiful weather we’ve been having lately and that there is plenty more to come. This year I have decided to take the months of July and August off completely and spend a lot of the time in County Clare. There I am looking forward to catching up with family and friends, pursue some of my interests like reading, painting, yoga, walking and swimming. These pursuits I find very relaxing and help to centre me into the present moment. When our thoughts are scattered in several directions at once and… READ MORE

Hi Everyone, It’s with a certain sense of achievement I find myself feeling as I write this letter …that sense of ‘Phew, we made it’. There’s no doubt about it but it has been a turbulent year with many highs and lows and again it is how we view it whether it has been a struggle or something you are willing to accept and move on from. In even the most difficult of times, the Buddha taught that it’s possible to experience more happiness and less suffering, even if nothing in your life changes on the outside. The answer lies… READ MORE

, Hi everyone, I hope this letter finds you and your family safe and well as we navigate this new way of being together. One of the things this pandemic has taken away from us is the notion of certainty. Yet, if we think about that for a moment was our future ever certain? No, is the answer but there were certain things we relied on that kept a sense of normality, a sense of control so to speak…. like our children being able to go to school or college, being able to congregate at an event like a concert… READ MORE

On the longest day of the year, the sun, which has on the days preceding seemed to rise higher and higher into the sky, reaches its zenith and rises no more. This day, which in the Northern Hemisphere can occur between the 20th and 23rd of June, marks the start of summer and is known as the summer solstice. From time immemorial, the coming of summer’s light and warmth has been a time of gladness and celebration. The summer solstice remains a time of new beginnings and life-enriching endings. It is the day the sun reaches the peak of its… READ MORE

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