Tag: military

  • Love Life Purpose – Competitiveness and Creativity

    Love Life Purpose – Competitiveness and Creativity

    Featured Image:  Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking : Bayles, David, Orland, Ted, Mann, Sally: Amazon.ie: Books Competitiveness vs. Creativity I want to share something that has shaped much of my life—something you may recognise in yourself as well: competitiveness. I was born in 1942, near the end of the…

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  • Black Rock Castle

    Black Rock Castle

    The Ruins of Black Rock Castle The first evidence of human presence in Ireland may date to around 10,500 to 8,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaternary around 9700 BC, heralds the beginning of Prehistoric Ireland, which includes the archaeological periods known as the Mesolithic, the…

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  • Who Would have Thought?

    Who Would have Thought?

    Surely we would all be quick to acknowledge that the greatest technological advent in our day was the invention and household availability of computers and more especially the internet. One might say that the pace began in the ‘80’s and it could also be suggested from then until today; the knowledge humanity gained in 40years…

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  • The Speech

      The president stood, flanked by high ranking military officers on the raised deck. A little to one side stood a young Marine, who held the Medal of Honor with the two loose ends of a blue ribband. It was a warm day in Washington DC, there might have been, at the very least, two…

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  • Jessica and Pieter-Jacobus

        All the while she gazed out her upstairs window – the bright moonlit Transvaal winter’s night revealed a fantasy landscape before her. It was a stage upon which she could set the actors as she wished.

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