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“St. Patrick was born in Britain to wealthy parents near the end of the fourth century,” says this St. Patrick bio. At the age of 16, it is said he was taken prisoner by a group of Irish raiders who took him to Ireland where he spent six years in captivity. He turned to his…

This has excellent pass-around value. It’s really cute and funny.

If you’re looking to improve your collection of Irish folk music, here’s an award-winning Irish folk music blogger’s list of the best folk albums of 2006. Oh, and here’s a list of the best Irish bloggers addressing all subjects.

If you don’t have an Irish pub in your neighborhood, this and this will help you open your heart to the real soul of Ireland next Monday.

If you are shopping ahead for Easter goodies, please check out the Monastery Greetings homepage for music, incense, and the most remarkable Easter cookies I’ve ever seen or tasted. (They’re cut from a 17th century German cookie mold!)

We were talking about festivals and the Washington Monument yesterday (scroll down if you missed this valuable conversation). So I decided to press on with my research into the sacred symbolism of obelisks (tall, four-sided towers than end in a pyramid-shaped point). In ancient Egypt, obelisks paid homage to the all-male, all-powerful, stud sun god…

Thank you, reader Matthew for the following letter in regards to the questions stirred by the popularity of “The Secret”‘s Law of Attraction philosophy. Matthew writes: The idea of blame is completely without merit in the larger New Age set of beliefs that include the “Law of Attraction.” If someone’s attracted cancer into his or…

Well, the postman struggled to squeeze it through my slim mail slot. And when I picked it up to quickly review its contents, I realized that reading it slowly is a much better objective. At a full-figured 136-pages, it’s a thing of beauty. I’m talking about the Omega Institute 30th-anniversary catalog, a guide to 300-plus…

I once wrote an article for “The Washington Post” about the dreams people have about Washington D.C. Turns out lots of people have dreams that involve the Washington Monument. When I queried a Jungian analyst on this, we both agreed it was hard not to see this 555-foot tall obelisk as our nation’s phallus. “A…

The Chattering clan recently pulled over to the side of Flatbush Avenue and ran out onto the sidewalk to get a better view of a large hawk sitting on top of a streetlight. He was so beautiful, and very patient with all the commotion going on beneath him as the main branch of the Brooklyn…
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