From Bath to Cork with Baby Grace

Recently I ran into this wonderful event.  At a meeting of BNI Cork City Chapter, I met a woman who’s working on this for 2009.

This was the first time this event had registered with me.

Here’s the link to Discovery 2008.

I’m wondering whether I could help publicise this?  It’s all about turning kids on to science, engineering & technology.

Background:

I phoned Science Week Ireland: they’re working on their website for 2009, and expect it to be ready in 2 weeks.  Discovery 2009 Cork is a subset of Science Week.  Maybe there are activities in other parts of Ireland.  I’ve asked to be put on the list for press releases.

"Discovery 2005, the first exhibition of its kind in Cork, was a resounding success, with over 4,500 young people filling City Hall over three days."

You know this already.  You know that your health, mental or physical, exists in a context.

All the stuff about the economy, all the experience of unemployment, worry about job security, thoughts about the future, feelings about the past… all this forms the context within which your mental health exists.

The precise relationship is mysterious.  People sometimes feel better during a crisis, when it’s clear the chips are down.  Sometimes people crack under the strain.  Generalisations seldom satisfy me because I am suspicious of them.  It’s the individuality of each situation that grabs and holds my attention.

So, when I found out, this morning, that the names of the 10 people, who propped up the share price of Anglo Irish Bank, are in the public domain, I felt a little more secure.  More clear.  Less a victim of political mascinations.

I feel better when I feel things are out in the open.  I hate to think that there are powerful people capable of hiding truth from me. That feeling comes to me with insecurity.

Now that we know who those 10 are, and know they had some sort of relationship with the governing party, Fianna Fail, I feel on more solid ground.

I got the news via Twitter from Tim Nelligan.  I think I owe thanks to the journalists on the Sunday Times, and to Gavin’s Blog too.  But when I went to the primary sources and tried to find the Sunday Times report on line I couldn’t find it.

So I’m left unclear and suspicious.

For a long time I’ve been erratic on here.  Unreliable.

You couldn’t be sure I’d even publish on any particular day.  I could be away. I was away, posting on Listowel Writers’ Week Fringe blog (April-June) and then Summer Music on the Shannon blog (July-August).  And I took three weeks off to holiday in France/Spain (June-July) with the vow that I wouldn’t social-network at all while on holiday.

All together, a recipe for losing readers, friends & followers.

No better day to form a resolution than a Monday: I’m going to return to my focus on mental health over the next few months.  I’m doing this because

(1) there is the book on Depression to be tied down and got ready to present to publisher

(2) there is desire to have a bit more stability in my life, meaning some additional ‘certainties’, and this is a ‘certainty’ I might be able to control.

(3) if I don’t keep my hand in, I won’t be able to write about mental health with confidence.

The renewed commitment:

an average of one piece per day, 7 per weeks, 30 per month…

I won’t crucify  myself over this but I intend to achieve it.

I would love to have some guest bloggers : people who’d like to post something longer than a pithy comment.  If you would like to send in a piece, I’ll put it up for you and be delighted.