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Ar Scáth a Chéile

10/10/2019

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Ar Scáth a Chéile translates from Irish into something like 'We stand in each others shade, or shelter'. Nothing and no-one can exist independently. In this week of Extinction Rebellion actions around the world it seems a good time to be reminded of this obvious truth. 
No bees? No food. No insects? No pollinators. No trees? No protection  from desertification, erosion, global warming...the list goes on and on. 
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My favourite poster from the Dublin students strike

I was walking in Clashganny Woods feeling the life beneath, around and above me. Everything connecting - the upper canopy giving shade for younger trees and smaller plants, creating habitats for myriad beings, wind and rain and sun and seasons in endless cycles.  Here was a deeper time, a holy place. In these days when so much life is threatened,  I breathe in the joy and beauty of the natural world. ​​

Connecting the activist and the spiritual, here's a link to a conversation between an London XR activist and two monastics from Plum Village Zen Monastic Community. 
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Forest Floor

In a few days I'll be heading into HellFire Studios with my good friends Cormac O'Brien and Dominic Mullan to record our next trio album. I'm excited to see how the tunes I've been writing these last few months will develop. I know we will bring our most open and receptive selves to creating something new.

Meanwhile, here is a solo piano version of Ar Scáth a Chéile

Hope you enjoy! Comments welcome!
3 Comments
Eoin Mac Lochlainn link
10/11/2019 02:35:56 am

I'm delighted to come across this site. Thank you first of all for the music. Your piano solo is beautiful. Thanks also for the link to the conversation with the two monastics. Just one thing - can I please correct your title, I hate doing this because I love the fact that you are using the Irish proverb but putting the 'fada' in the wrong place changes the meaning of the words...

No fada on the first A. and a fada on the 'e'

Ar Scáth a Chéile

All the best and thanks again, Eoin

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Carole Nelson
10/11/2019 05:45:22 am

Hi Eoin
Thank you so much for your kind words. And for your gentle correction! I was thinking the Cheile looked a little bare! I'll change that now..

Xcarole

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