Opinion & Reviews

My father was a high school English teacher. Because of his hours, he was home in the early mornings and late afternoons. As my mother worked long hours and erratic shifts at the hospital, my dad was there to comfort and protect. He specialized in stirring up his self-declared specialty:

When the Vikings did arrive, they found Scotland and Ireland were worlds they fit into quite well. They found it was a barbarian region, with local rulers or overlords providing protection. More accurately, it was extorted protection from nearby settlements.

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The Black and The Green is a remarkable, under told story of the direct and significant influence the American Civil Rights struggle had upon the Irish fight for justice in the British manufactured statelet, and a chronicling of the universal fight for freedom throughout the world. Available on the Criterion platform.

Poetry or liturgy aims to create that sense of mystery as a means of drawing attention to the mysterious, that force that governs those things that lie just beyond our senses. Since the advent of nuclear physics and the emerging philosophies surrounding this discipline, we are free to experiment with ideas that mainstream science is cautious to embrace. Our existence and consciousness in the realm of quantum physics open new ideas.