Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. — Joseph Campbell #q

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This might be the best explanation I’ve seen for the divergence between consumer sentiment and economic data george

How do the risks of death change as we age – and how have they changed over time? I'll explain this with 4 very cool new charts below! ourworldindata.org/how-do-the-ris…

Do the bright lights, loud music and endless gift shopping of Christmas ever feel like.... too much? 🎄 You’re not alone – as the five characters of Ken Wardrop’s So This Is Christmas will show you. Discover their stories in a cinema near you: 🔗 wheretowatchireland.com/movie/so-this-…

A mash up of some 3d work over the past month or so for todays #30DayMapChallenge. It's a mix of work brand stuff, personal experiments and some abstract art exploration thrown in for fun. I also updated my website with some projects from this year mapzilla.co.uk if

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Originally commissioned as a sculpture to reflect the history of Belfast's red-light district, the final sculpture has been banned from Belfast public land. atlasobscura.com/places/monumen…

A Tardigrade (Water Bear ) walking across a glass slide

Highly recommended youngmensritesireland.ie

No matter what the world tells you, stay a dreamer. (art by Quint Buchholz)

Those who don't understand the layer below are doomed to reimplement it poorly on the layer above.

How did society understand abortion historically? Claudia Ford, herbalist and midwife turned environmental historian provides us with a history lesson:   nautil.us/how-was-aborti…

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi

The older I get, the more I realize that it is not about what I accumulate but what I give away. Not just in terms of money or possessions, but am I generous with my attention to someone who needs it? Am I offering up my time, my gentleness, my compassion, my mercy & grace?

Two decades ago, a quarter of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. That fell to 8.3% by 2022. The pandemic caused setbacks, but it didn’t change the fact that life has continually improved for most people in the world in this century.

Plus: Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform ‘Fairytale of New York’ as a reflection after Communion. Can honestly say this is the first time I’ve ever seen dancing in the aisles at a funeral…

A few years ago, Egypt had the world’s highest burden of hepatitis C. In one of the greatest-ever public health accomplishments by a country, it has screened its entire population, brokered a deal for drugs and cured almost everyone. nytimes.com/2023/11/28/hea…

The wisdom of Bill Watterson. This makes me think of Marcus Aurelius' words “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” I am a firm believer in gazing upward, of being overcome with awe & wonder at the night sky.

“In his sixty-six years, Rumi composed nearly sixty-six thousand verses, animated by an ecstatic devotion to living more fully and loving more deeply.”