#88
Yesterday's Nice Thing: The second day of good weather
Turning up for the page, for the angel. The exhaustion continues. But it is the end of term and everyone is tired. While Steiner education is not perfect, I feel so sorry for people for who have to live in the mainstream system which is closer to a prison than to a place of learning. People think that freedom is all about doing whatever you want, but freedom is really about balance, as I have said many times before.
So I am looking forward to the holidays which should be soon.
I was watching Derry Girls and realised how soon it was I went to Derry after Clinton visited... and how amazing it was when the ceasefire took place. Nothing was certain then... and now, now... look at Northern Ireland. It is an amazing place. We must be so grateful and know that we hold a miracle in the palm of our hands. That the entire world seems to have slid into oblivion since seems so strange - here in Northern Ireland, we have just gotten ourselves together and gotten on with it. Step by step, step by painful step we have gone on...
Here we have made something for ourselves. I remember thinking that would they ever get over the whole Bill Clinton visiting thing, but no, why should they? Gabriel was saying even that after the IRA announced the ceasefire that people still could not believe it. People were still walking around going... wha?
Every single episode of Derry Girls, I have cried at the end when something significant happened in the peace process, and it was because so far, it would seem that we have succeeded. And I have watched the fight for peace every single day I was here. From living in Derry, to living in Belfast. We watched the DUP and Sinn Fein finally take their seats and then the fragile peace now be threatened by the ludicrous RHI scandal, cos old habits die hard - and some people makes loads of money and some people languish in poverty - and then some people lose it all.
Everything is possible is what we have learnt in Northern Ireland. Outside I hear a wren singing and in its song there is such exquisite innocence.
Today I bring the possibilities of everything to bear upon what we have today.
I never want this moment to end - these last few minutes before I have to wake the kids up. I am listening to Enya and am in danger or just downloading everything because it reminds me of a time when, when.... I think when I began... well, this quiet moment must come to an end... and here it goes...
Turning up for the page, for the angel. The exhaustion continues. But it is the end of term and everyone is tired. While Steiner education is not perfect, I feel so sorry for people for who have to live in the mainstream system which is closer to a prison than to a place of learning. People think that freedom is all about doing whatever you want, but freedom is really about balance, as I have said many times before.
So I am looking forward to the holidays which should be soon.
I was watching Derry Girls and realised how soon it was I went to Derry after Clinton visited... and how amazing it was when the ceasefire took place. Nothing was certain then... and now, now... look at Northern Ireland. It is an amazing place. We must be so grateful and know that we hold a miracle in the palm of our hands. That the entire world seems to have slid into oblivion since seems so strange - here in Northern Ireland, we have just gotten ourselves together and gotten on with it. Step by step, step by painful step we have gone on...
Here we have made something for ourselves. I remember thinking that would they ever get over the whole Bill Clinton visiting thing, but no, why should they? Gabriel was saying even that after the IRA announced the ceasefire that people still could not believe it. People were still walking around going... wha?
Every single episode of Derry Girls, I have cried at the end when something significant happened in the peace process, and it was because so far, it would seem that we have succeeded. And I have watched the fight for peace every single day I was here. From living in Derry, to living in Belfast. We watched the DUP and Sinn Fein finally take their seats and then the fragile peace now be threatened by the ludicrous RHI scandal, cos old habits die hard - and some people makes loads of money and some people languish in poverty - and then some people lose it all.
Everything is possible is what we have learnt in Northern Ireland. Outside I hear a wren singing and in its song there is such exquisite innocence.
Today I bring the possibilities of everything to bear upon what we have today.
I never want this moment to end - these last few minutes before I have to wake the kids up. I am listening to Enya and am in danger or just downloading everything because it reminds me of a time when, when.... I think when I began... well, this quiet moment must come to an end... and here it goes...
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