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I’ve been working in a church community centre just round the corner from my house for two weeks now.  Today the postman brought a parcel for me to my desk in the centre.  I looked at it, confused – wondering why anyone had sent me a parcel at the centre, wondering if I’d put the [...]

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At the wedding of a former colleague and great friend.  Beautiful day.  The whole day was full of stories – “this one time in Peru…”, “when she was young…”, “when we first met…”  Stories are our true language.

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Settled in for the evening I start to hang up my washing. Suddenly the phone rings and next thing I know, my friend and I are sitting chatting over cosmos in front of the fire! These are the evenings I’ll miss, the stories I’m glad to live and enjoy and want to savour.

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Today’s tale is this… I’ve been raising funds to go to France (a whole other story!) for what feels like forever (and a whole other story there too!).  Today was decision day – the Irish Council were meeting to decide if I had enough support in place to get the go ahead.  Ideally, monthly support [...]

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Take Two : Telling Tales

I’m not quite sure how I’m suddenly typing in this little box on my old 365 blog. I was just curious to see if anyone had stopped by here in a while – since I hadn’t – and suddenly I find a whole new concept and technically a whole new commitment to a year of [...]

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