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Bit Devine's Blog – March 2013 Archive (4)
Dusting Off the Travel Memories - Part 2
Ireland to Texas, the Circle is Complete
In the most unlikely places, connections can be found linking two cultures, two worlds and two vastly different centuries. Such was the case in a small, village in County Laois, Ireland.
At the edge of Ballybritas, on the back road to Vicarstown, sits the dairy farm of Michael and Brigid Dempsey. It is a quiet, unassuming…
ContinueAdded by Bit Devine on March 26, 2013 at 2:00am — 4 Comments
Gaeilge á Labhairt Anseo ~ Irish Spoken Here
Word Nerd Alert! I am a self-professed word-aholic. Even in my young years, I read dictionaries for fun. It was no surprise then to anyone when I chose English as my major in college. It was also no great surprise that my two minors were Native American Studies and Celtic Studies. The only great curiosity was what I was going to do with all of that knowledge.
One of the research papers which I submitted in my final year covered commonly used words or phrases in day to day English…
ContinueAdded by Bit Devine on March 25, 2013 at 2:36pm — 1 Comment
Spring Poems ~ A Favorite of Mine
SPRING
NOTHING is so beautiful as spring --
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this…
Added by Bit Devine on March 25, 2013 at 2:35pm — No Comments
Dusting Off The Travel Memories
In a way of introducing myself, I thought I might share some of my "Trail Tales" from previous journeys home...
I think we shall start with this one:
Sing Us a Song, Cowboy!
By Catherine Lilbit Devine © August 18, 2006
Whispers of the West has made our second journey to the Emerald Isle to perform our Music…
ContinueAdded by Bit Devine on March 22, 2013 at 10:44am — 1 Comment
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