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Covid Tales (xiv): Seven Years On, No Songs Of Praise Shall Be Sung This Summer

June 20, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

(Ballycastle beach, 20/6/20)   Exactly seven years ago the first proper blog post on emeraldscribe was published. It seems a lifetime ago, and yet it is quite apt and timely […]

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Beauty, Christian, Creativity, faith, Mental Health, northern ireland, Photography, prayer, Spirituality, Writing

Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?

June 14, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

  Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coronavirus, Creativity, faith, Mental Health, Spirituality

Covid Tales (xii): Ten Questions To Ask Yourself About Covid

May 18, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Tonight I begin with a few prefaces. First of all, as they say in my part of the world, “don’t eat me” if you disagree with any of this. We […]

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Beauty, Coronavirus, Mental Health, prayer, Spirituality

Covid Tales (xi): Generational Stillness

May 9, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coronavirus, Creativity, peace, Spirituality

Covid Tales (x): More Scrutiny Needed Of Ongoing Draconian Measures

April 30, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

SO BORIS is back to work. Prayers have been answered, one might say.  (And as I’ve written quite openly before, I’m not politically a huge fan of Boris Johnson, but I […]

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Coronavirus, honesty, northern ireland, Spirituality

Covid 2020 Tales (viii): How the pallet progressed…

April 18, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

ALMOST forgot to post before the week is out.  In the interests of integrity because I said I would, here’s a wee visual of how the pallet effort progressed yesterday. […]

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Creativity, Spirituality

Covid 2020 Tales (vi): Fresh Creativity

April 15, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

THERE’S so much I could write about the last 10 days, in this covid-19 pandemic lockdown, but I’m going to refrain myself in this post. I will say here that I’m […]

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Coronavirus, Creativity, Spirituality

Covid 2020 Tales (iv)

April 5, 2020by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

TODAY’S POST almost hasn’t happened. But I decided to keep the discipline and fulfill what I wrote I would last time, of posting again “on Sunday”. One of the good […]

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Christian, Coronavirus, faith, prayer, Spirituality

Covid 2020: Part 3

April 2, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

A VERY interesting unexpected thing is happening since I’ve started posting these pathetic wee covid-19 period blog posts. This blog site has been receiving new and unexpected traffic from China almost […]

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Coronavirus, newspaper journalism, northern ireland, Spirituality, Writing

Covid 2020 Tales: (ii)

March 29, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

SPRING HAS sprung here in Northern Ireland, and yet it’s hard to fully appreciate it since the whole country and entire British Isles are on complete lockdown now due to […]

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Beauty, northern ireland, prayer, Spirituality

Sixteen Weeks

August 8, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]

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Beauty, California, Christian, Creativity, faith, honesty, northern ireland, passion, prayer, Spirituality, summer, Travel, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Over 3,400 Fire Fighters Continue to Battle Redding Blaze

July 28, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

My heart is very, very heavy ongoingly today, ever since I discovered almost by chance late on Thursday evening UK time, that my second home of Redding was about to […]

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California, faith, peace, prayer, Spirituality, summer, USA, vulnerability

Advent Home: Final post

December 23, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This will be my last post of the year, before closing the laptop for 2017 and enjoying Christmas mostly away from technology. I have driven home from Northern California to […]

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Beauty, Christmas, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality, USA, Winter

Home Advent 4:

December 12, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Reflections on my summer pictures continued…number 4… Enjoy! (Dunluce Castle sunset, North Coast of Northern Ireland, in July 2017). copyright L. Dunlop

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Beauty, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

Home Advent: 2

December 6, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Continuing my own countdown to returning back home soon, here’s another stunning photograph I took in the summer of my beloved land, Northern Ireland.  This is of White Park Bay, […]

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Beauty, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality, Travel

Advent Home: 1

December 5, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Over the rest of December, as I prepare for going back home, I will be posting at least a few random posts about Northern Ireland, photographs or otherwise. This will […]

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Beau, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

Happy Easter from County Antrim Northern Ireland!

April 17, 2017by emeraldscribe 1 Comment

(Taken on Easter Monday, 17/04/17, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland. copyright L. Dunlop)   “Three lambs a leaping…”

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northern ireland, Spirituality

Good grief: Good Friday

April 15, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

THIS very afternoon just two weeks ago I went round to pray for a local father figure, someone I respect and cared for very much, a real rock solid background […]

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cancer, Christian, faith, Spirituality

Not bad for the shortest day of the year

December 21, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

21st December in the northern hemisphere isn’t renowned for glorious sunny days, but today is a crisp, cold sunny one in the North Coast of Northern Ireland, so I thought […]

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Beauty, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

Beautiful even in dark days of December:

December 18, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

No place quite like the beauty of North Antrim, Northern Ireland. The days may be short this time of year, but the sunsets can still be stunning.

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Beauty, Photography, Spirituality, Winter

Maghera to Praha for coffee, cuisine & more

December 4, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

LAST WEEKEND I wrote of my authentic experience at ‘The Auction Room’ in Maghera, and told you about the great coffee, food and ambiance on offer to residents and commuters […]

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Coffee, Creativity, Cuisine, Culture, Czech Republic, Food, Travel, Winter, Writing

Hello from Eastern Europe…

November 30, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

THE UNEXPECTED ADVENTURES within this year, often because of the fierce adversity thrown in the beginning of 2016, (but not a surprise to my ultimate guide) have been quite amazing. […]

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Beauty, Culture, Spirituality

C.S. Lewis…What a Man

November 22, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

THIS DAY in 1963 saw the dark departure from this earth of a writer of incredible latent talent and ability, C.S. Lewis, who also happens to have been from the […]

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Beauty, Christian, Creativity, honour, Spirituality

More shots of last week@The Dark Hedges might as well share…

November 7, 2016by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

   

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Beauty, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

Autumn Beauty

October 21, 2016by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

FIVE WEEKS ago I posted a poignant article about a beautiful young lady who passed on to the next life. A bit of a ‘taboo’ subject, perhaps, but something close […]

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Beauty, Mental Health, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality, Writing

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