Dom Kelleher

Part consultancy, part thinktank and part social enterprise, we work on emerging issues, values and ideas.

[Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation @HoodedClaw1974]

This is me in a nutshell 🤣🤣🤣

[Psychology Today @PsychToday]

The world would be a far better place if we spent less time judging others and more time understanding them. Here's how to get started. https://t.co/lrmdflpKnf

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

The way through the wood that doesn't entangle the soul is not worth walking. The way through the wood that offers no possibility of an enchanted encounter is not for me. – #CLNolan #Woods

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

Hooklanders call it 'the Other Path'. They say it wanders, that it won't stay still enough to be recorded on any map. They say if you stumble across it and walk it for too long it will take you deep into Faery.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing:
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1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.⁣
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2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.⁣
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3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.⁣
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4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.⁣
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5. Start as close to the end as possible.⁣
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6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.⁣
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7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.⁣
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8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.⁣

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Czeslaw Milosz:

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

When I close my eyes I travel to hills hazed by trees and stalked by whisper-winds full of gossip from the next county. Travel to broken barrows, their excavation wounds healed by the long greening of the land. This is the strange England and the singing of my heart. - #CLNolan

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

I distrust those who dislike wood-walking. For woods are feral border to the fantastic. To be off the path in one is not only to be on the threshold of adventure, but a wandering out of time into the clockless eerie where all manner of the mythic may be met. – #CLNolan

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Always return to this Czesław Miłosz:

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This saves me

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

I've learnt a new bit of Hookland dialect today – halramin. It means to walk towards the horizon for no other reason than you feel it will be good for your soul or peace of mind. I feel like I've been doing that unknowingly an awful lot lately. – #MattAdams, 1980 #Hookland #WOTD

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

• Mary Oliver •

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

I realise living in Hookland that I've slipped into the other England. An out of the corner of your eye, just to your left England. A place where the strange is familiar, a Wicker Queen to guard a field is no longer oddity, but a signpost to say you're home. – #MattAdams, 1981

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

The Word of the Day 😀

Pick your favourite 🌿

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[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" sends the wrong message about work.

We should teach kids that who you are is more than what job you do. Work is an activity—it doesn't have to define your identity.

A healthy sense of self is rooted in character, not career choice.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

One tweet biography of every English & British monarch since Alfred the Great in 886:

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[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

This is the deep magic of England. Over every gate, beyond the next meadow, up the next hill or in its crowning copse of tree there is the possibility of meeting the Enfolding Otherworld. To move forward in any direction is to navigate the realm of folklore. – #KatherineGiddings

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

Folklore is a transformative power. It gives us the sense that always over the next field, over the next hill is magic, enchantment. It pulls us across the land in navigation of wonder. To doubt its might is a form of madness. - #CLNolan, 1924 #FolkloreSunday

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

“What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?”
Pooh had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey WAS a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. ~A.A.Milne

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

For this is hollow England. Every hill holding dragon, sleeping knight or buried way to St. Martin’s Land. The undercrust of bones and secrets upon which all modernity floats. - #CLNolan