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A FLEETING BEAUTY

It was an hour of great beauty, the kind of beauty that the ocean and the coast give frequently. Towards the coming...
Herbert O'Driscoll
December 15, 2023
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WONDROUS MOMENTS

For some reason I have always been intrigued by imagining what it would have been like to be present at a moment...
Herbert O'Driscoll
December 10, 2023
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INVOLVEMENT AND DETACHMENT

It is the year 625 A.D. In northern Britain the Kingdom of Northumbria is experiencing great change. A huge...
Herbert O'Driscoll
December 7, 2023
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THE DOG RIVER PASS

I have never been presented with so much evidence of the futility of war as when driving up the coast highway north...
Herbert O'Driscoll
November 29, 2023
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FRA GIOVANNI’S LETTER

As the days and weeks slip by towards the seasons of Christmas and of New Year, some of us find we have a problem....
Herbert O'Driscoll
November 27, 2023
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INTIMATIONS

More than anyone else I know, Wordsworth wrote most tellingly and beautifully of the precious years of childhood....
Herbert O'Driscoll
November 21, 2023
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Across the Valley

Does the name Rabindrinath Tagore mean anything to you? He was an Anglo Indian poet in the early years of the last...
Herbert O'Driscoll
November 14, 2023
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A Deep Loyalty

Archbishop Michael Peers who recently died, was for many years the respected Primate of the Anglican Church of...
Herbert O'Driscoll
November 7, 2023
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The Olden Days

Not very long ago one of our great-grandchildren asked her great-grandmother a question that intrigued me. She...
Herbert O'Driscoll
October 25, 2023
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A 21ST CENTURY PARABLE

A couple of weeks ago in the Sunday Supplement of the Victoria Times-Colonist there was a shot of a large bowl...
Herbert O'Driscoll
October 11, 2023

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