Photo was taken yesterday at Col√°iste Choilm, Ballincollig, Co.Cork (Irl)

First years started in many secondary schools yesterday and is always a big day for them, as they make the transition from primary to secondary. The girls in our photo along with their
principal Michelle Sliney, were all relaxed as they came into school yesterday.

Thought on Wednesday – August – 28/08/2013

‘There is a mysterious unity and diversity within you and me. I have a body but I am more than a body. I have feelings but I am more than my feelings. I have thoughts but I am more than my thoughts. I am one but I am many’ ~Vincent Travers


We are special and unique. There is really no one quite like you or me. No one has our looks, our fingerprint, our personality, our gifts and talents, our likes and dislikes or our way of doing things. There are a few in our lives who know us well and one or two who may know us intimately and really well. But even here they will never know us fully. Every person is complex and fragile. There are boundaries and fences within, that not even we can cross. In that sense we are a mystery which always needs to be respected.

A puzzle can be solved but a mystery will always have bits of the unknown. Once we respect these, our relationship with others will always be healthy and wholesome. It will be sensitive to allow others have a bad day, to be there for them and sometimes to respect that they may need some time or space. It also recognises that we don’t need to have all the answers. Just to be there for someone and journey or walk with them is our greatest gift to them.