Join EngAGE CEO/Founder Tim Carpenter on his recent trip to Ireland.
“To be Irish is to know in the end the world will break your heart.” Headed to my homeland for the first time.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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- Dublin
With Greg Berkoff [Dr. Gregory M. Berkoff, EngAGE CA Headquarters Board member]. In conversation with Dubiners at breakfast: “Let there be no consternation.”
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- Dublin
At Kilmallock Gaa. Countryside by Irish rail.
An elder train rider: “It doesn’t rain in the pub.”
In Cork with Greg Berkoff.
“May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.” – Irish Proverb
“I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky” – Oscar Wilde
In Galway.
Morning walk in Galway.
My last day on the Emerald Isle, I am fully smitten. “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” – George Bernard Shaw
