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?
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. .
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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.
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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.
ThoughtForToday – 14 October
It’s not easy to be present
attentive in the moment.
So many thoughts swirling
senses alert
memories crying for notice
– and the “to do” list
hanging over you.
So what?
It’s my birthday
Even the earthworms are dancing
leaves crinkling bent smiling
heron reflecting from Glashaboy bank
– It’s my birthday
Even Tweets are landing
Periscopes popping
Facebooks refreshing
– It’s my birthday
the day to smile
love and be loved.
Diarrorhea from Asia
followed by
jetlag
and
nose
dripping
snot.
It’s my birthday
the day to smile
love and be loved.
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Note: Composed yesterday
ThoughtForToday – 13 October
Explore…
your disappointments
your triumphs
your anxieties
your uncertainties
your wishes
Become a world class explorer
ThoughtForToday – 12 October
Your birth day is
well worth celebrating.
If you hadn’t
successfully dealt with
that challenge
– you wouldn’t be ready now
for your next move.
ThoughtForToday – 11 October
When you stand for “Kindness”
– you are a kind person
– kind to others
– you also speak kindly about others
– you live kindly.
You feel kindly towards yourself too.
ThoughtForToday – 10 October
The further you travel
– the more you learn
The more confusion you welcome
– the more wisdom you gain
The more disappointment you tolerate
– the stronger you grow
The less you quibble with others
– the more loving you are
Getting hammered in Malaysia
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Getting hammered in Malaysia
pelted on by heavy water
flared by lightening
assaulted by thunder gods
– as if I’d been cosseted in the womb and sucked outside
– so unlike the Malay.
Raindrops are not under your command
we are sent to clear your air
disrupt the haze
silence your cough.
Nothing lasts.
Nothing continues
Nothing sits on top of you
unless lightening strikes your heart
and takes your breath away.
ThoughtForToday – 8 October
Tell yourself what you believe.
Tell others too.
Show yourself your belief.
Show others too.
When you tell – you present your front.
When you show – you are convincing
ThoughtForToday – 7 October
It’s wonderful
we humans come
in so many
sizes
shapes
languages
beliefs
cultures.
So many differences to relish.
And we all love kindness.
ThoughtForToday – 6 October
The human body
sucks it all in.
Your entire body
experiences,
senses,
records
imagines.
You don’t have to do anything
except keep breathing
