Episode 352: Conditioning I feel around St. Brigid's Day

I want us to integrate our inclusive ways ... those parts of ourselves we have been battling to represent... to have heard 

To quote Mary Robison's inauguration Speach which was read out to me on the Hill of Uisneach yesterday 

https://uisneach.ie 

"The recent revival of an old concept of the Fifth Province expresses this emerging Ireland of tolerance and empathy. The old Irish term for province is coicead, meaning a “fifth”; and yet, as everyone knows, there are only four geographical provinces on this island. So where is the fifth? The Fifth Province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each one of us — that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in. Ancient legends divided Ireland into four quarters and a “middle,” although they differed about the location of this middle or Fifth Province. While Tara was the political centre of Ireland, tradition has it that this Fifth Province acted as a second centre, a necessary balance. If I am a symbol of anything I would like to be a symbol of this reconciling and healing Fifth Province" 

Full text:

https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/09/inaugural-address-dec-3-1990/

https://president.ie/en/media-library/speeches/address-by-the-president-mary-robinson-on-the-occasion-of-her-inauguration