A reflection for Holy Saturday

Baltimore in the state of Maryland is a special American city to me. My wife comes from there. It shares it’s name with a small Irish town outside Cork and in some ways it bears an uncanny, if very American, likeness to Belfast. Post-Industrial, blue collar, serious about sports and home to very real poverty

India: a glimpse of beauty

We drove through bush land, a tiger reserve, through acres of teak trees, then eucalyptus trees, then bushes concealing the tigers of our imaginations. A mother elephant swayed while chewing grass, waving it’s trunk around and unconsciously sheltering her young infant at her side. In the towns and cities meanwhile there is busy-ness, hustle bustle,