Category: Postcards

THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK AND EFFORT DESPITE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN DUBLIN (SAD). NO MATTER WHAT COMES NEXT FOR YOU I HAVE NO DOUBT YOU WILL SMASH IT. 

SCIENCE SAYS SCREAMING (EVEN ON THE INTERNET) IS GOOD FOR YOU

Your voice has been my companion across years and miles, through loneliness and uncertainty, telling me the stories that drew me ever closer to home.

Drink in a poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson about finding home

Enjoy more of Michelle O’Kane’s photographs

Thank you for making my introduction such a positive one. I couldn’t have asked for a better person to have had it with. You gave me a lot of confidence that I could do this and hadn’t made a massive mistake 😊 You are also just an incredibly good person so thank you for that. 

Learn 5 phrases to help boost your colleague’s confidence

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You bring pure and simple delight into my life, chasing away the gray.

Learn more about the glorious Hindu holiday of Holi, the “festival of colours” / “festival of love”

Once you stop learning, you start dying.

Albert Einstein

Thank you for opening me up to a world I had no idea existed. After nearly 50 other pilgrimages you’re still my favourite.

Investigate why you should try new things

Be charmed by Paris Wyatt Llanso’s paintings

A decade ago, your voice was my boon companion, distracting and sustaining me during difficult times. I’ve now found my way back, needing the calm certainty of kindness to remind me that it won’t always be this hard.

Watch Dave Lieber’s TEDx talk on the power of storytelling

Wonder at the surreal work of the illustration duo Frank Moth

I’ve met so many awesome people from Dublin. I always wanted to visit, but the opportunity never came up, and it makes me sad that I’ll never get that chance.

Read about some ways to deal with sadness

Growing up in cities Chocolate and Crescent, I thought I understood. I was wrong. With fiery truth you’ve taught me about the work I still have to do.

Go deeper on privilege and see what white privilege looks like

Browse Pluralsingular’s illustrations

I will miss you amazing people! Thinking of you all, please let me know if I can do anything to be helpful. 

Delve into how being helpful can make you happier and more productive

You’re the most delightful people, it’s been wonderful to know you. All the things you do, large and small, mean so much. I am full of sadness as you deserve so much more. My hope is that all your pastures end up greener and not just because of constant rain! My very best…

The idiom “greener pastures” has its roots in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria / Art of Love: “Fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris / the harvest is always richer in another’s fields.”  [Book 1, Part IX, line 349]

Read the full text online of this witty collection of mock-didactic elegiac poetry at Poetry In Translation or download an ePub at the Gutenberg Project.

While it feels like drowning now, we’re all strong swimmers. Once this tempest passes, I hope we wash up on the same sunny shores.

Explore the deeper meaning of the Death card in Tarot

Marvel at Phantastique’s mystical illustrations

I got a chance to hang out with some Dublin folks when I was in Berlin. Everyone I met was kind, brilliant and had BIG HEARTS. Please stop by in Seattle if you’re in the area. Lots of love, hugs from across the pond ❤️

Explore the connections between the Emerald Isle and the Emerald City