Shanakee

03/04/2025

19/12/2024

Counting the hours bow until I see my babies again for the Holidays. Wishing everyone out there peace and Joy for this Christmas season and a prosperous new year to one and all.

28/07/2024

This year for my birthday I choose to celebrate my life. To clebrate, possibly for the first time ever this beautiful, big hearted, 'overly sensitive', painfully shy, goofy, misunderstood little boy.

Born into a world he could never fit into. His gentle naivety and goofy way, teased and goaded, his attention seeking actively ignored and belittled.

This year I chose to celebrate this plucky little survivor, this gentle dreamer this little warrior that fought the bullies and sometimes won sometimes lost but never gave up though he came close at times alone, abandoned in the dark.

This year I choose to love this beautiful innocent soul; to celebrate the father he became, as vilified, misunderstood, abused, ostracised and mischaracterized as his own father was before he died. A good, gentle, kind, sensitive, warm, affectionate, bright, adventurous little thinker, dreamer and lover of birthday cakes balloons and candles.

Who laughs with all his goofy little heart.

Today and forever I choose to love this little soul with all my heart and to tell him "Everything will be okay little guy coz..
I love you and I support you, I'll hold you through your heartbreaks, see you for who you are and forgive all your sad mistakes"

This little boy is Sam junior: a wonderful warmhearted brother, a kind, gentle and adoring father, a supportive and loving son and a loyal and caring friend.

One half of a twin flame snuffed out by vampires.

I Love you Sam

Have a wonderful joyfilled birthday, and remember... Your life matters and you will always be enough.
🎂🎂🎂

16/06/2024

To Fatherhood and freedom, to Love and a life that matters

14/03/2024

Donegal, where Heaven meets the Earth.

24/11/2022

When the conquistadors came to "The New World" they quite rapidly changed the face of it to reflect the same "Old World" they left behind...
But an even older story would persist even by their own hand.
Unconsciously that oldest of stories perpetuates into eternity, despite our best efforts at self sabotage.

20/11/2022

"Tá onóir ag an aois agus uaisle ag an óige"
A chip off the old block
Thank you John Lawrence for the photos

14/09/2022

Tá cheist agat? tá freagar agam!

24/02/2021

https://youtu.be/QRbRlAMhRDA

My most recent carving a story and tune... enjoy

Join me as I carve the second character in a series from Ireland's great epic "An Táin bó Cuailgne" The cattle raid of Cooley.

21/12/2020

In celebration of midwinter and the darkest hour before the dawn. In anticipation of a brighter new year this is part two of my chat with Mara Elaine. We talk about the new year which in the Irish language is Ath Bhliain which literally translates as the fording of the year. So this episode speaks to that transitional time on a seasonal and macro cosmic level. Hope you all enjoy the happy ramblings. Best wishes and all the warmth and blessings of the festive season to you all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOiNph-v0v4

|Welcome to the Earth & Cosmic Wisdom Series - Conversations for Evolutionary Times | Esp. 12 | with Storyteller, and craftsman - Samuel Thomas Brett Part 2...

25/10/2020

I recently had the unique pleasure of talking with Mara Elaine O'Grady on the Earth and Cosmic Wisdom Series about life the Universe and everything. It was fabulous experience and hope to be back for further mind expanding discussions in the future. Check it out here on the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZv84S1CIfo

|Welcome to the Earth & Cosmic Wisdom Series - Conversations for Evolutionary Times | Esp. 9 | with Seanachai - Storyteller, and craftsman - Samuel Thomas Br...

17/10/2020

"Our courage breaks like an old stone in a black wind and dies,

But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes"
Yeats-ish

07/10/2020

I recently completed some research into a friend's family from Florida.
I discovered that their great great grandparents lived and died on the banks of the beautiful Unshin River in South Sligo over 150 years ago.

"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future".

Hermann Hesse

23/09/2020

. “The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn’t ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.”
– Elizabeth Coatsworth

20/09/2020

We are the flower—Thou the Sun!
Forgive us, if as days decline—
We nearer steal to thee!
Enamored of the parting West—
The peace—the flight—the Amethyst—
Night's possibility!
Emily Dickinson

16/09/2020

"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting."
Carl Sagan

09/09/2020

"I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate;
Those that I guard I do not love"
Yeats