Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses […]
Two trees I studied the topographical map once To find out the secret of the two big trees In the lower yard. They were the permanent Things about that piece of land our house Had stood on for more than one hundred years. The two acres peaked at 480 feet above sea level And dipped in […]
Yesterday I flew from the east coast to Los Angeles and watched two movies that were uncanny in the similarity of their view of the human condition. The moral synchronicity was more startling for the cultural chasm between the two films: the uber-Wasp corporate reality of the Reitman brothers’ Up in the Air and the […]
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it except your anxious vanity and fear of failure. Barbara Euland, If You Want to Write Around the time I discovered that more […]