February 2012
37 posts
Years later, when they were killed in a car crash on the Farm to Market Road, and the Nell-that-never-lived died with them, Olena, numbly rearranging the letters of her own name on the envelopes of the sympathy cards she received, discovered what the letters spelled: Olena; Alone
- ‘Community Life’, Lorrie Moore
Nothing makes your heart ache like literature
Joyas Voladoras, by Brian Doyle →
So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end — not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart. When young we...
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Watchmusicwednesdays:
An oldie but a goodie:
“On the 22nd of April 2010 Friends of the Earth gathered some of the brightest musical talents in Ireland for a show to promote Earth Day. The show was a huge success (more videos will follow).
To promote the gig Lisa, Gav and Rhob did an impromptu performance for the nations uncle Dr. Tony Fenton on Today FM.”
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“Skinny Love” (Bon Iver) cover by...
