Some people are starting to speak to me - there is a time to stop showing up - to put the work down - to say no - to stop meeting the expectations - as the expectations exist - if you don't - they will never die! There is no change if you feed off what needs to change ... 

Article mentioned:

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-family/2025/04/05/adhd-children-are-now-in-a-queue-with-50-year-old-adults-for-a-drug-that-is-in-short-supply/

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/10/30/adhd-should-not-be-treated-as-a-disorder

What I have been integrating with huge transits and the backdrop of the world. Not to mention my yearly gripe of when they f**k with the clocks... 


Mentions:
Jimmy Carter Open Letter 2019 
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/713495558/president-trump-called-former-president-jimmy-carter-to-talk-about-china

Bell Hooks Belong Smelly story
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207369.Belonging?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=DyhWCRLM6f&rank=1

We need to focus on corruption - not the noise or the attention-seeking circus - with one clear message we can dismantle what is creating the advantageous divide for a few. 


App I use for articles: https://getpocket.com


Atlantic article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/

I'm disturbed by the push for people to do ADHD testing.. and in fact even the Economist recently wrote maybe we are looking at people wrong - "ADHD diagnosis is created by society norms"      

So why not look at fish oils and flax seeds in your diet? 

Or Human design 

http://geneticmatrix.com

specifically, look at your digestion and environmental factors... 

Visual Stress Opticians in Ireland 

https://www.elliottopticians.ie 

https://irlen.com/what-is-irlen-syndrome/

How do we create more choices for people - it really is that simple for me.

Divergent:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13335037-divergent

James Baldwin - The Man and His Work link:

https://www.audible.com/pd/James-Baldwin-The-Man-and-His-Work-Audiobook/B0DSCHZSLV?ref_pageloadid=9H22Pn6jdp7Fh3Nz&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=J8XW2K1KGJZ1P0W8WMNY&plink=TwMWgQOToZ1aq3DW&pageLoadId=yN7faNIl6uPPRJO2&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_B0DSCHZSLV

Uncle Vanya:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Vanya

I know you think that January 2026 has marked a change for the worse - I don't -  it has never been so transparently clear the power of the single human in a collective change and conscious humanity. 

     

Why are students using AI for essays and what are the impacts on authentic expression 

Why have I stopped using Grammarly for my creative writing? The irony of what it takes to have a unique authentic report from the system. 

Why are teachers and academics positively correcting essays generated by AI? 

It brings into question what skills we are not teaching students and why are the pressures so high at certain points in the academic year? 

What am I actively doing at the moment to keep moving forward? 

What am I reading? 
A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Martin Luther King Jr

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13532185-a-gift-of-love

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire

Myra Bergman Ramos
 (Translator)
,
Donaldo Macedo
 (Introduction)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72657.Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27091.Teaching_to_Transgress

   

Why did I return Malcome Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point? 

How change has happened in the patterns of behaviours in Ireland over Christmas and how these impact the 'big systems' we feel are unchangeable? 

What to change on setting your New Year resolutions, goals intentions,

Make up your own mind, Revenge of the Tipping Point book link:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216857785-revenge-of-the-tipping-point

Do we need a new soundtrack to Christmas that allows us to stay a little more aligned with the present?    

Do the traditions cause anxiety?  Maximise the grief and sadness? 

With Climate Change how many of us will have a white Christmas?  

If we focused on paradoxes and not labels we'd embrace difference ... diversity and just simple human complex nature 

I can't listen or read or accept any of the limiting views that are meant to be supporting this circus any longer.. how can more attention mean more challenges? It's because of the intention behind the attention.