Disclaimer: This post is about sport. Please move along if you don't have the time.
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Shane Horgan.
Personally, I love the word beauty. In the last few years of my life I've gotten a good feeling for the word. When I was a teenager it never stood out as a word. Now it seems like the most consuming thing I can conjure in my head. I find beauty in many different situations. Particularily, I suppose I most get the feeling I'm seeing beauty when I listen to some music that touches me, some painting or some photograph that says something to me that I can't put into words.
For me, beauty is the most magical concept and I am ecstatic every time I visit it. It's the one thing that as an adult, compares to Santa Claus on Dec. 25th. I saw beauty last Wednesay night when Barca did things with a football that just made me gasp. I saw beauty today with Ireland. Surely, we should have put more points on the board, no doubt. But there is an Irishman who has been derided by silence. If you are passionate about sport, how can you not love Shane Horgan? Fuck Roy Keane, fuck Brian O'Driscoll - why not fete an Irishman who has so much heart that it explodes all over your TV? The Drogheda man with no media profile is the most valuable sportsman we have. There are many men who can be considered animals as atheletes, but Horgan brings heart and beauty to Ireland as well as all that power. He doesn't ever sound upset at being moved into the centre despite his preference for the wing, as we saw in the 2005 Six Nations. There is only one other Irish sportsman who comes close to Horgan in dedication and that is Bruff native John Hayes. These people have only one body for their life. Yet, they put it on the line without restriction every time they play for Ireland. I just am so glad that I have some Irish sporstmen who live the dream for me. It's beauty staring me in the face.
Published by Paul.
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Shane Horgan.
Personally, I love the word beauty. In the last few years of my life I've gotten a good feeling for the word. When I was a teenager it never stood out as a word. Now it seems like the most consuming thing I can conjure in my head. I find beauty in many different situations. Particularily, I suppose I most get the feeling I'm seeing beauty when I listen to some music that touches me, some painting or some photograph that says something to me that I can't put into words.
For me, beauty is the most magical concept and I am ecstatic every time I visit it. It's the one thing that as an adult, compares to Santa Claus on Dec. 25th. I saw beauty last Wednesay night when Barca did things with a football that just made me gasp. I saw beauty today with Ireland. Surely, we should have put more points on the board, no doubt. But there is an Irishman who has been derided by silence. If you are passionate about sport, how can you not love Shane Horgan? Fuck Roy Keane, fuck Brian O'Driscoll - why not fete an Irishman who has so much heart that it explodes all over your TV? The Drogheda man with no media profile is the most valuable sportsman we have. There are many men who can be considered animals as atheletes, but Horgan brings heart and beauty to Ireland as well as all that power. He doesn't ever sound upset at being moved into the centre despite his preference for the wing, as we saw in the 2005 Six Nations. There is only one other Irish sportsman who comes close to Horgan in dedication and that is Bruff native John Hayes. These people have only one body for their life. Yet, they put it on the line without restriction every time they play for Ireland. I just am so glad that I have some Irish sporstmen who live the dream for me. It's beauty staring me in the face.
Published by Paul.
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