JohnVBerdy

COUNSELOR-Specialize in Grief & Loss; TRAINER/EDUCATOR; MUSICIAN-Healing with Music, Sound & Sacred Words; WRITER. Trained grief counselors in NYC post-9/11/01.

[JohnVBerdy @berdy_v]

@brigidpowerhi @firerecordings In the brief 28 seconds on Twitter I heard the sounds and tones of keening in your voice a few times — or, did I? I just discovered you via your Tweets and haven’t heard all of “Mother in The Sky” but I lived in Ireland in the Gaeltacht 2 yrs when I was 22, & am a musician.🙏🏽🍀🎶

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@Reuters Russian Orthodox Patriarch (yes! that’s what they still call them!) Kirill should be removed from his position for endorsing the presence at Midnight Mass of Russia’s sociopathic leader who daily orders the slaughter of Ukrainian civilians including women, children & elderly.☦️😢

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@katebomb @NASAKennedy “A Cathedral for Space.” What an inspired title for that image. Science and spirituality ultimately land in the same place asking the same primordial questions if you then close your eyes long enough to experience the EMOTION of the IMAGE. Thank you, Kate, and Beannacht Ort🙏🏽🍀

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@SusanSmythSL The blue sky is beautiful but this image of the rural countryside tree-lined road trailing off to the horizon for me conjures up the archetypal image that moves me deeply which I can only think of as “The Road of Life”. I feel an entire lifetime unfolding in a single image. 🎭

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@saacolon There are plenty of associations with the word Emperor throughout world cultures and epochs which include tyrants like the new “Emperor” of Russia V. Putin. But if viewed in the context of the Emperor & Empress cards of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, the energies are Archetypal👑

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What was Lindsey Graham thinking when he suggested Putin be assassinated? Doesn’t he realize 🤪 that if someone makes an attempt on Putin’s life & is caught and they say “Well, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham hired me”, then OUR highest leadership will be the next terrorist target! 🤐

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@ElaineARoche That truly IS how positive change is brought about in our world‼️ — by being FULLY PRESENT in the moment with KINDNESS toward all...and the sometimes challenging part is: Without judgement (-which instantly creates separation). + I greatly valued her teacher: Chögyam Trungpa 🙏🏽

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@Aoifedowdartist I had such a strong emotional response to this painting. Tears before a thought could even form - but tears of joy..childhood memories. This is what I have a heart chakra for❣️ After so much loss & change this piece brings me Home..The hearth where my heart lives & still glows.🏠

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@TeamIrelandOW When I was living in Ireland many yrs ago (early 1970’s!) I worked with a fellow at Ashford Castle who would refer to anyone who annoyed him as a “Feckin’ ee-jit”. His ‘unique’ pronunciation stayed with me...but the foreign guests never caught his ‘dialect’ —Buíochas le Dia🍀🇺🇸.

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@Aoifedowdartist That’s the Galway that I remember! This painting has such an incredible mood, Aoife. With all the texting comments being so glowing, you’d do well with a bidding contest for this one! 🍀What amazing contrasts in tone between the sky and the water. ❇️ 💙 A real 💎 gem.

[JohnVBerdy @berdy_v]

@Fran_Pollio19 @cnalive @ArchDenver ✝️Just read your inspired article about the apparitions St. Bernadette witnessed as I was watching The Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes live on EWTN! I am already a follower! While you are new to me, you clearly express all of who you are from the depth of your heart💜🛐

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@Aoifedowdartist Was noting your art but couldn’t ignore the synchronicity. Love the stained glass behind the salmon. Your artwork heals...The Way of Beauty through Art, even more than knowledge, can open our hearts and bring people together with compassion & equanimity. Buíochas le Dia✡️✝️☪️☸️🕉

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@Aoifedowdartist Aoife: Was sharing a bit of my Irish with an American friend just last night and actually mentioned Bradán Feasa! And I spoke of how Yeats’ Celtic Twilight sparked a sense of pure wonder in me when barely 19 yrs old. Anois..Our world is in more need than ever of Bradán Feasa.☮️💟

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@DennisMcCalmont @sharongrimes1 Seeing this I remember a haiku poem I wrote many years ago when I had just moved to the Conamara Gaeltacht in the Fall of 1972:
Autumn stillness —
the crash of a
dried leaf.
🍂🍁

[JohnVBerdy @berdy_v]

@KenmareFoodies @PaudieOGrady How blessed you are, Karen, to be able to live so fully in the present moment — to the extent that you are transformed by it.🍃🍂 It is truly seeing the Divine, the Sacred in everything... I think that’s what we’re here for. 🙏🏽💫

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@FiMcfall @bcoops_online When there is such a complete depth of Love and connection days, hours and minutes can become Eternal. I recall the words of a spiritual teacher: “Where there is love, there is no separation.” We stay connected Forever. My wife passed away 5 yrs ago yet she’s but a breath away.💝

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@Aoifedowdartist This is astoundingly beautiful. I’d be surprised if this one doesn’t fly out of your studio before the oils completely dry! What a treasure.

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@psyclingqueen I LOVE THIS! I’ve been a longtime student of Japanese culture - especially classical & contemporary haiku poetry and the films of Yasujirō Ozu (and some of Kurosawa’s). But I don’t know how I missed this. This is wonderful! Iontach! I must forward this to friends & colleagues.⛩

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@karengallen2 @psyclingqueen Nothing is more infuriating to someone struggling with clinical depression than to be told: “Would you just snap out of it.” If they could have just ‘snapped out of it’ they would have long since done it! When in deep despair, simple cognitive behavioral strategies rarely work.

[JohnVBerdy @berdy_v]

@Evanis Eva, your lovely descriptions of so many beautiful photos provide wonderful opportunities to add a little bit to my daily lessons in Irish! I knew the word 'neart' as meaning strength or might but now I also know it can mean plenty of something. Go raibh maith agat.🙏🍀