by Orna Ross | Jul 17, 2014 | The Rest |
Our Goodreads Giveaway of After The Rising & Before The Fall, the two-books-in-one special edition, is now over and the winners are…. (drum roll!) Kjell Meijer of Limburg, Netherlands and Maria Pia Quijano Castillo of Lima, Peru. Your copies of After The Rising...
by Orna Ross | Jul 13, 2014 | The Rest |
“To be a good human is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. “That says something very...
by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2014 | The Rest |
“Please, “ask yourself whether these great sorrows have not, rather, gone right through the middle of you? If much within you has not changed, if you haven't somewhere, in some place, changed your being, while you were sorrowful?… “If it were...
by Orna Ross | Jun 23, 2014 | Poetry |
Where are you? The splendour of creation awaits. Beauty veiled, she dallies, playing with the wings of birds passing, swaying her hips with the wind, wanting to dance, to bring you music from planets and clouds. Call her by right name, hear her...
by Orna Ross | Jun 14, 2014 | Fiction |
Yeats activity is hotting up in Ireland, as June 13th 2015 will be the 150th anniversary of his birth. Yesterday was the third annual Yeats Day in Sligo and Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht used the occasion to launch “Yeats...
by Orna Ross | May 26, 2014 | Go Creative! |
Creativism is: the conscious application of creative principles to everything in life A Creativist is: a person who applies creative principles to the art of living e.g. home, relationships, money, work. Creativists adopt conscious creation as a way of life. We...
by Orna Ross | May 20, 2014 | Poetry |
Come out into the garden, someone says. It’s almost seven and the table is laid. Yes come. Evening wind is cooling the trees, and we are here, whispering over the rim. See, your mother staring out through the eyes of your son. Your niece hands you a peach with her...