There and Back Again

Pondering: Now the sky could be blue, I don’t mind, without you it’s a waste of time. ‘Could be blue, could be grey, without you I’m just miles away. (Coldplay, Strawberry Swing)
Well what can I say? I guess I’m what you’d call a die-hard Coldplay fan and so of course, I have to [...]

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Pondering: I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. (Margaret Thatcher)
My 920 AM flight to San Francisco from Las Vegas has been grounded and won’t fly out until 1130 AM. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I am staying positive despite the delay but my patience is waning. To think [...]

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Pondering: Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. (Mark Twain)
Another trip over. Another set of pictures to print and put together in a scrapbook in an effort to capture every moment and time in this very wonderful trip. I truly had a fantastic time. [...]

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Pondering: It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn’t match what you dreamed it would be. (Randy K. Milholland)
We said goodbye to Killarney this morning and my heart is sad. It was a magnificent town; very charming and memorable. The Ring of Kerry trip was worth all the cost and the [...]

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Pondering: There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. (Sean O’Faolain)
This is our last night in Killarney (Cill Airne in Gaelic, meaning Church of the Sloes). The B&B we are staying in is not the most [...]

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Pondering: On Pembroke road look out for my ghost, dishevelled with shoes untied, playing through the railings with little children whose children have long since died. (Patrick Kavanagh)
We sure did a lot today - stopped at a lot of picturesque places as our bus drove around the Ring of Kerry. The Ring of Kerry [...]

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Pondering: Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. (Jane Austen)
One of our many stops today was St. Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland. My sister and I went inside the cathedral to have a look at the altar, the windows and the overall architecture. [...]

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Pondering: Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. (James Joyce)
I’m on board a train to County Cork, Ireland. This is hour one of a 3-hour train ride. Once there, my sister Myra and I are joining a tour to visit the Blarney Castle and kiss [...]

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Spanish captain Iker Casillas and teammates celebrate after winning the UEFA EURO 2008 final between Germany and Spain at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria. (Image: © Daniel Dal Zennaro/epa/Corbis)

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