“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to take responsibility for it...[and] decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world... but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.”
@Delta made us miss our own connecting flight (all delta)
A simple announcement allowing passengers who had a connection to deplane 1st would have allowed ALL 11 of us instead of the lucky few to make our connection
Running 1/4 mile pregnant only to to turned away at the gate…
It's important to separate the art from the artist. I don't condone the rampant hooliganism of the Riverbottom Nightmare Band, but can't deny how much I dig their Blue Öyster Cult-meets-Beefheart styled songcraft.
President Higgins speaks to Blindboy on this week's Blindboy Podcast about his Machnamh 100 series, the importance of reflecting on and revising our opinions on our history, its current relevance and much more besides. Listen to it at https://t.co/6Wk42JcLe3
Troid gliomaigh (Trid glum-ig)
A fight between lobster and eels. Who wins?
Collected from John Deairbe Ó Flatharta, An Cheathrú Rua, Co na Gaillimhe
Photo by @varianlauren
Halloween on South Uist, 1932 looked pretty terrifying. Children made homemade costumes from sheepskins, haystack wigs, scraped-out skulls and sheep ears! One boy spent an entire day peeling the skin from a sheep skull to make his mask!
(📸 Canna House Photographic Collection)