The “scientific method”
sound & strong.
Predict an outcome
experiment
discover
whether that happens.
The “trust method”
predict safety
experiment
experience
whether that happens.
Make your trust method
sound & strong.
Author: Paul O'Mahony
I'm Paul O'Mahony - living in Cork - Father - Poet - member of Toastmasters International - Business storytelling consultant - Podcaster - Blogger - Foodie - Loves to connect with people. .
linkedin.com/in/paulhomahony
Charles Bukowski poem: “Alone with everybody”
Read by Paul O’Mahony
ThoughtForToday – 29 October
Your mental health
is your greatest possession.
By losing your wellbeing,
you learn how fragile it is.
By being a good friend
to someone who’s lost their health,
you appreciate this.
Live this mantra:
“Our health is our wealth”.
QED
(‘The very thing it was required to have shown’)
ThoughtForToday – 27 October
I’m writing a book
the book of my life.
It’s a book which won’t appear in print
nor on the Internet.
Every act I do is a new letter
every move a phrase
every relationship a paragraph
every collaboration a story.
I hope it’ll be a best seller.
Live-streaming Cork Jazz Festival 2015
The annual Jazz Festival in Cork is huge. It’s the biggest festival of the year in Cork. There is huge sponsorship by Guinness (Diageo).
Ireland has many great festivals – but few communicate their goodies well to the wider world outside Ireland via the Internet. [With the possible exception of the Irish Redhead Convention.]
At Cork Guinness Jazz Festival 2015, I set out to see how Periscope & Katch could be used to communicate the quality & excitement of the festival. And also add to the record some of the music events.
https://katch.me/embed/v/486d82a0-3994-3f2d-a3db-b2faab2fc9c0?sync=1
Here’s a Twitter List of Irish Festivals (not complete)
ThoughtForToday – 26 October
Especially
today
be generous to someone
who doesn’t expect it from you
Experiment
see what that feels like.
You’ll never know the full result of your generosity
“What a wonderful world” – Jazz Festival in Cork Ireland
ThoughtForToday – 24 October
Keep time for the unexpected.
Don’t fill your day with intentions.
Protect time for daydreaming.
You never know who might want to spend time with you.
Welcome
the unexpected.
ThoughtForToday – 23 October
Your presence.
You
are a
presence –
your existence
makes a difference
– you matter
– you influence
– your arrival
– your being
– your departure
– you make ripples
– you make things happen.
Imagine that.
ThoughtForToday – 21 October
It’s great to feel positive.
Energy flowing
spirits high
resolution strong.
It’s inevitable you’ll feel
negative
blocked
contorted
unmotivated.
Be positive about your negativity.
Don’t lock it in.
Express it
ThoughtForToday – 20 October
We Humans are divided
by places
customs
beliefs
weather
languages
standards
heroes
practices
music
dress.
Is there anything all us humans have in common?
How about
kindness?
My old school
My old school
My old classmates
My old playground
My old teachers
My old stomping ground
My old team
My old routine
You served me a dish fit for a Limerick boy, a Jesuit boy, a Roman Catholic boy, a professional boy
– doctor, dentist, auctioneer, lawyer, publican, priest, fishmonger, bookseller, architect, accountant, shopkeeper, teacher, vet, insurance broker,
Nothing on the menu for a father, lover, lorry driver, bricklayer, songwriter, carpenter, gardener, bus conductor, poet, vagrant, commercial traveller
In my day…
ThoughtForToday – 19 October
Boring.
Neither anywhere
nor anyone
is boring.
It is I who make stuff boring.
Boredom does not exist in its own right
– but
(like beauty)
in the eye of the beholder.
ThoughtForToday – 18 October
You are full of energy,
motivation
spirit.
All that remains to be done
is to
slightly move
some of the rocks
that block your path.
Then
you’ll push forward with gusto.
Experimenting with Blab
https://blab.im/7cd64f73da2647f88d84279662366593
How to get better at using Blab?
This live streamed conversation with Victoria @VictoriaJamesUK + Ollie @Ollieflj (Oxfordshire UK) + Timm @brandideas (Sydney Australia) + Rich @firemanrich (New York State USA) :
We began relationship building.
We finished up advertising 2 Blabs:
(1) Blab about Kindness on 22 October #GenKind24.
Plus
(2) Blab about poetry on 23 October.
Reflection: We loved Blabbing conversation because it connected us
ThoughtForToday – 17 October
I play.
I am a musical instrument.
Sometimes an orchestra out of key.
A string quartet at odds with itself.
Other times
– a pure violin making sacred notes.
You too make your music.
Play.
Mind, heart & imagination of the maker
My hope for this blog is that it will (gradually) become a special place.
Where makers of art (defined widely) will share their stuff.
Where it won’t be an occasional guest blogpost.
Where (in addition to poetry) there will be virtual sculpture, video storytelling, cartoons, music, philosophies, manifestos – all introduced.
Big work, little work, work-in-progress, personal stuff
– all introduced.
The maker speaks – not only through the work.
As I’ve just written to Lars
“My wish is that every piece of creative work will be introduced by the maker. Any way they like – I think people are more & more interested in a behind the scenes peek into the artist’s way.”
It’s time I went back & introduced my own work. People will explore backwards.
____________
See: https://paulhomahony.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/do-you-need-a-computer-to-make-electronic-music/
Chicago calling
– lines composed as a result of spending a Sunday afternoon in The Green Room, Chicago, in July 2014
Play with your eyes
out of your head
Strum the chords
out of your corners
Crawl all over
his melody
into ecstasy
across the tap tap
slap into the face of her heart.
Glasses pop
into stacks
wicked slick
beats bleat
complete insider
Out to play
The Green Mill pill
ThoughtForToday – 16 October
Sing the song of the open road
ThoughtForToday – 15 October
My way.
By the way
what is my way?
Fingerprints.
Retina.
Unique genetic hand-me-downs.
But
there’s more to me.
My way
– what’s that?
What do you say’s my way?
That belongs to no one else.
From Bath to Cork with baby Grace 