Paul Keating Osteopath

27/08/2024

Please spend 3 minutes reading this note from William Shatner, the actor from Star Trek:

“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."

-- William Shatner, actor

26/01/2024

As a protest against Israel’s killing of civilians I will not watch the Eurovision Song Contest unless Israel are banned. I would like others to protest this way also.

30/06/2023

I want to thank everyone who wished me happy birthday yesterday. I appreciate all your good wishes. Love and best wishes to all

13/04/2023

🚆Let's plug the leak and bring our railways into public hands.

13/11/2022

The schoolgirl who met Taoiseach Micheál Martin in July to raise awareness about the lack of autism supports has urged health officials to “just do your job”.

In an impassioned speech to the Joint Committee on Autism, Cara Darmody told TDs: “I’m sick of adults who just talk.

“Why can’t you all do something about this and stop the damage being done to children with disabilities?”

Cara, from Ardfinnan, Tipperary, was invited to give evidence to the committee following a face-to-face meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin in his office in July. Her appearance before the committee saw the 12-year-old enter the history books by becoming the youngest person ever to address a Dáil committee.

She has two brothers with autism Neil, aged 10, and John, five.

Frustrated by what she sees as a lack of services, Cara has been raising awareness and funding for better services locally and nationally.  

She told the committee that the shortage of autism services is “a crisis and a national disgrace”.

“My brothers Neil and John have been treated disgracefully and I am here to stand up for them.

I am also here to stand up for the almost 18,000 children who have been left to rot on waiting lists.

Cara also told the committee how, aged 11 and in 5th class in Ardfinnan NS, she studied over 400 extra hours so that she could sit the Junior Cycle maths exam in June.

In doing so, she raised €40,000 for her local school and Scoil Chormaic Special School.

“Today, many children are benefitting from my fundraiser," she said.

"However, it is disgraceful that those schools are relying on a 12-year-old to fund their services."

“I want to be very clear: Nobody is treating this like the house is on fire.

“Everybody I meet is always so nice, but it always ends the same: they are all talk and no action.”

Next June, she plans to become the first 12-year-old in Ireland to attempt to sit a Leaving Certificate exam in maths.

She said that it will again raise funds for the same two schools but will also now include the national organisations of AsIAm and Family Carers Ireland.

* Irish Examiner

04/10/2022

Love this one from Life of Dad! ❤

04/10/2022

04/10/2022

COILLTE really should have had a second go at making this sign for The Cut recreation park in the Slieve Bloom mountains. https://www.coillte.ie/site/the-cut/

Makes it very difficult for half the population to find the place too.

In the meantime, check out our TAKE A HIKE guide to local walks here: https://www.greystonesguide.ie/take-a-hike/

26/09/2022

Something is wrong with our Society

Many people no longer do work that has any meaning
to them.

And since human beings are productive creatures....
We are meant to create, when we do work that's not creative, that doesn't reflect who we are, that imposes
depression, anxiety, a sense of meaninglessness…

And when we have a sense of meaninglessness we'll want to substitute that sense of meaninglessness, or that sense of meaning we have lost by all kind of other activities.

We get all hung up with how we look, how people feel
about us, what we can obtain, what we can posses, what successes we can achieve, in other words all the
false substitutes which can not possibly compensate us for the lack of genuine meaning.
And of course what this society dose is it sells us lot's of products that substitute for the lack of genuine
meaning.

In fact much of our economy is based on the loss ofmeaning in our culture.
Gabor Mate

"What I'm saying is that
NORMALITY IS A MYTH.

And that THIS SOCIETY
TRAUMATIZES A LOT OF
PEOPLE BY ITS STANDARDS,.. and that the so-called
illnesses, dysfunctions, are
very often normal responses
to what fundamentally is an
ABNORMAL CULTURE."
Gabor Maté, There is only one boat: The Myth of Normalcy

Our minds are conditioned
- that is an obvious fact -
…conditioned by a particular culture or society,
influenced by various impressions, by the strains
and stresses of relationships, by economic,
climatic, educational factors, by religious
conformity and so on. Our minds are
trained to accept fear and to escape,
if we can, from that fear, never
being able to resolve, totally
and completely, the whole
nature and structure
of fear. So our
first question is:
can the mind,
so heavily burdened,
resolve completely,
not only its conditioning,
but also its fears?
Because it is fear that
makes us accept conditioning.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT
PEOPLE ARE UNEDUCATED…

THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY ARE
EDUCATED JUST ENOUGH TO REPEAT WHAT THEY ARE TAUGHT BUT NOT TO QUESTION WHAT THEY ARE TAUGHT.

THE PROBLEM
WITH OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
IS THAT IT TESTS MEMORIZATION
SKILLS, NOT LEARNING OR INTELLIGENCE.

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