Thought For The Day Collection

Trauma is carried in body, memory & emotion and impacts individuals, family & community.

With over half a century's worth of information in my head, things occasionally fall out

There are times when tears are the most eloquent form of communication...

Great uncle Bob would recount his days as an anesthetist back in the 1950s...

The sacrament of Confirmation is forever associated in my mind with Ballyhooley in Cork..

Things change in small, sometimes almost imperceptible ways...

Showing human compassion regardless of age and situation...

Growing up on a farm years ago, the rules of health & hygiene were thin on the ground...

Bringing the Disappeared home to rest and the remarkable women who spoke out...

Predator and Prey - understanding the fear in their relationships...

Different takes on 'Spring is in the air'...

On 5th February 1924, The BBC began to broadcast the hourly time signal of the Pips...

The imagination and vision to boldly go where no man has gone before...

Understanding the meaning of words and how they are expressed...

What would you say on a walk with Jesus of Nazareth?

The opening of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in January 516 BC is a remarkable story...

The Robin welcomes the day with his song...

An inquiry into the pain of the innocent and the denial of the guilty...

The first ever performance of Romeo and Juliet occurred on 29th January 1595...

A man asks God to be a woman for one day so he can relax at home. It's not so easy.

Baby Jessie and the freedom to believe in what you choose for yourself...

The ethos behind the youth organisation of the Scouts, set up on 24th January 1908

Paying attention and giving time to those around you...

22nd January - this is the day when the first Boeing 747 flew in 1970 from New York...