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paul cawley's posterous http://paulcawley.posterous.com these are my thoughts on my journey :: posterous.com Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:16:41 -0800 Looking forward to the new album :: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PaulCawleysPosterous/~3/0dsezN22dfk/looking-forward-to-the-new-album http://paulcawley.posterous.com/looking-forward-to-the-new-album I'm pretty excited about the new album from The Boss, Wrecking Ball is out the beginning of March and I can't wait! In what has become a Friday tradition, I've been listening to one of the songs, We Take Care of Our Own and thought I'd share. Mr. Springsteen sounds in fine form!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/96529/Image0012.jpg http://posterous.com/users/k1uV91cYZb Paul Cawley paulcawley Paul Cawley http://paulcawley.posterous.com/funny-president-higgins-meets-the-irish-rugby Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:09:05 -0800 Some insight from President Higgins speaking at the London School of Economics :: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PaulCawleysPosterous/~3/UDJaqsWHqiw/some-insight-from-president-higgins-speaking http://paulcawley.posterous.com/some-insight-from-president-higgins-speaking

Really encouraged reading what President Higgins shared last night in his address at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He spoke of both political and intellectual crises. President Higgins challenged universities to "...to recover the moral purpose of original thought..." - I'm encouraged our President thinks like this and speaks so passionately and substantively on the subject of political and intellectual engagement. He outlined:

The mid-twentieth century constituted an atmosphere where social capital emerged and social democracy mediated conflict. The twentieth century saw too a public debate about the role of the State, the rights of the individual and social policy, of the balance between these areas.

In succeeding decades political philosophy and social theory gave way to issues of administration analysis of the role of the State faded and gave way to applied studies, in an administrative sense, of the State’s actions.

A discourse based on solidarity interdependency, shared vulnerability, community, gave way to a discourse on lifestyle and individual consumption. A society of citizens gave way to a dis-aggregated mass of individual consumers.

I find Weber’s nightmare of a rationality that in time would counter the original purposes of institutions, that would morph into an irrational form, incapable of adjustment to change internally or externally, difficult to reject as an account of the modern period. As the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor put it – we have been drifting to unfreedom and I suggest that in terms of society, social cohesion, there is nothing as irrational as unregulated markets…

…It is time to recover the unities of scholarship, to strike out for originality. That, I suggest, might be our most valuable European contribution, one that will be valued by future generations.

As subjects are re-cast, unities can be restored, and we should consider Edward Said’s suggestion that it is in the interstices between subjects that the most exciting intellectual work happens...

It is a time to recover consideration of the public world we share, the fragile planet, for which we must have responsibility, and lodge within it a concept of intergenerational justice and the State, civil society, communities and citizens are needed to act in concert...

We need to draw on the debate on alternatives within civil society as opportunities to extend or deepen democracy rather than as alternatives.

There is a moral basis to those who are protesting to those who would like a communitarian new beginning, but I believe that to walk away from the State would be a tragic error on the part of those who seek an emancipatory transformation in our societies. Obviously, of course, to rely entirely on advocacy directed at the State, and to neglect the possibilities and promise of alternatives within civil society would be a disastrous choice too. In combining the tasks of concintization with a commitment to original thought and compassionate and emancipatory scholarship and teaching, public intellectuals can help bridge the space to that utopia and its praxis that we all, as vulnerable inhabitants of our fragile planet, need.

George Bernard Shaw would have encouraged us to save and reconstruct social democracy and to bring its refreshed promise to all the citizens of our shared Europe, to a Europe committed to an ever-deepening democracy.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/96529/Image0012.jpg http://posterous.com/users/k1uV91cYZb Paul Cawley paulcawley Paul Cawley http://paulcawley.posterous.com/some-great-quotes Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:17:03 -0800 Friday song - I Got Love :: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PaulCawleysPosterous/~3/gnT7AMvCqNY/friday-song-i-got-love http://paulcawley.posterous.com/friday-song-i-got-love It's becoming a bit of a habit to post a video of a lovely tune on a
Friday, so why stop! This is a cracking little video with lovely
production values where Foy Vance gets together with Mark Ashbridge
and performs Foy's newish song 'I Got Love'. It's lovely. When I went
to see Foy in Dublin last year, I think he mentioned this song was for
a film he was doing where he plays a busker.

Anyway, enjoy. Peace to you today.

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1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

The article is really worth a read in it's entirety.

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Just unbelievable.

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single out now - i think you should treat yourself

be the song - foy vance

when nightmares come,
keep you awake,
baby close your eyes,
I'll take the weight,
if I go to speak,
I will refrain and be the song,
just be the song.

when inner scars,
show on your face,
and darkness hides,
your sense of place,
well I won't speak,
I will refrain and be the song,
just be the song.

flow down all my mountains,
darlin' fill my valleys,
flow down all my mountains,
darlin' fill my valleys,
flow down all my mountains,
darlin' fill my valleys,

and when you run
far from my eyes,
then I will come,
in dead of night,
but I won't speak,
till mornin' light,
I'll be the song,
just be the song.

flow down all my mountains,
darlin' fill my valleys,
flow down all my mountains,
darlin' fill my valleys,
flow down all my mountains,
darlin' fill my valleys

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Open up the doors and let the music play
Let the streets resound with singing
Songs that bring your hope
Songs that bring your joy
Dancers who dance upon injustice

Did you feel the mountains tremble? Written by Martin Smith

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/96529/Image0012.jpg http://posterous.com/users/k1uV91cYZb Paul Cawley paulcawley Paul Cawley http://paulcawley.posterous.com/open-up-the-doors Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:46:23 -0800 Thomas Merton wisdom :: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PaulCawleysPosterous/~3/qI_whGd8Big/thomas-merton-wisdom http://paulcawley.posterous.com/thomas-merton-wisdom O Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of me,
I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself,
And that fact that I think
I am following Your will
Does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe
That the desire to please You
Does in fact please You.
And I hope I have that desire
In all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything
Apart from that desire to please You.
And I know that if I do this
You will lead me by the right road,
Though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore I will trust You always
Though I may seem to be lost
And in the shadow of death.
I will not fear,
For You are ever with me,
And You will never leave me
To make my journey alone.

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Taken at Giant's Causeway

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/96529/Image0012.jpg http://posterous.com/users/k1uV91cYZb Paul Cawley paulcawley Paul Cawley http://paulcawley.posterous.com/peter-rollins-sharing-on-his-latest-work-the Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:43:00 -0800 Mental health in the workplace :: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PaulCawleysPosterous/~3/TF7kMb8_HxI/mental-health-in-the-workplace http://paulcawley.posterous.com/mental-health-in-the-workplace Found this great C4 ad looking at how to approach the issue of mental health in the work place. Found it helpful.

Appropriate too with the passing yesterday of the wonderful John McCarthy, founder of Mad Pride Ireland. John was an inspirational man who campaigned for awareness for mental health issues and tried to get us to understand 'the normality of madness'. May he rest in peace.

[HT: Broadsheet]

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Found this lovely picture, which pretty much sums up how I feel about the year ahead - with one addition...

I'd like to fall 'more' in love with Ems.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/96529/Image0012.jpg http://posterous.com/users/k1uV91cYZb Paul Cawley paulcawley Paul Cawley http://paulcawley.posterous.com/ouch Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:54:22 -0800 A blessing for 2012 :: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PaulCawleysPosterous/~3/yRrG9hWAj-A/a-blessing-for-2012 http://paulcawley.posterous.com/a-blessing-for-2012 A Blessing

by John O'Donohue

May the light of your soul guide you.
May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart.
May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul.
May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work.
May your work never weary you.
May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement.
May you be present in what you do.
May you never become lost in bland absences.
May the day never burden.
May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities, and promises.
May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.
May you go into the night blessed, sheltered, and protected.
May your soul calm, console and renew you.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/96529/Image0012.jpg http://posterous.com/users/k1uV91cYZb Paul Cawley paulcawley Paul Cawley http://paulcawley.posterous.com/a-blessing-for-2012 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:59:00 -0800 happy new year :: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PaulCawleysPosterous/~3/8USLlWLN7yU/happy-new-year http://paulcawley.posterous.com/happy-new-year

i don't pretend anyone (asides from my lovely wife or my mother) reads my little blog, but in case anyone has stumbled across my blog in the last year, may i say thank you. thanks for stopping by.

i wish you a very happy new 2012.

peace to you in this coming year.

paul

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It might sound naff, give it a read, Garr makes a compelling case!

You can read the full post here.

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Sometimes I think we waste our words and we waste our moments, and we don’t take the time to say the things that are in our hearts when we have the chance.

- One Tree Hill

(I'll admit, I don't watch this show, I just stumbled across the quote and it took a hold of me!)

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Really enjoyed reading McLaren's Naked Spirituality this year. Using twelve words as a structure, he shows how we can connect with God in practical, doable and durable ways, and use that connection to serve others.

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