The Naming of Things - On the occasion of my fifty first birthday – 21/11/08
I sit writing at a brand new computer. It is a thing of beauty. I am newly bathed and self pampered and there is a glass of chilled white wine in view just beyond my vowels and syllables. There is one bead of condensation running down the side of the glass, teasing me.I feel as if I have come through a long fire and am now annealed and burnished as a new entity as I enter into my fifty first year. For, in common with many divorced men from what we call in Irish “An Pobal Aníos” - the lower classes, I have lived in a succession of bedsits since I officially left my comfortable middle class matrimonial home a little more than ten years ago. Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....