Monthly Archives: December 2019

Quotations: 2020 NEW YEAR: Michelle’s selection of quotations from books read during 2019, listening to YouTube and chosen quotes via Google. Blackdog has taught me that engagement with bibliotherapy teaches me coping skills hence each New Year I put together quotations. 28th May 2023 reviewed.

2020 New Year Quotations selected from books read; youtube speakers and selections of quotations via Google. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” ~ Erich Fromm “Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A … Continue reading

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In tribute to The Big Issue vendors we lost in 2019

We were saddened to report on the death of 13 much-loved vendors this year Source: In tribute to The Big Issue vendors we lost in 2019

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Citizen Journalism Ireland: Evictions, the vulnerable in Dublin 4. Nothing has changed since 2006: Boxing Day 2019 I met a brave woman who faces eviction from her home (a flat in a Georgian house D2) of 78 years which is her age.

Boxing Day or as some call it St. Stephen’s Day, the day of the Leopardstown Races, I was walking through what I call my smart urban village, called Upper Baggot Street, which had shed its clothing of Tech workers and … Continue reading

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