“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment”
Joan Didion
Tim Rajeff of echo flyfishing.
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‘To me, the real shifting landscape that must unfold is within. It is an inner change where the human being is no longer the central character in a play that has gone on for far too long; where the human being is no longer at the center, because the human being never belonged at the center. Something else belongs at the center.’
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
…save during the few and necessarily short visits of the clergyman of the parish, seldom have they heard of eternal life as the free gift of God through Jesus Christ, and even these visits were unprofitable from their total ignorance of English… their worship consists in occasional meetings at their chief’s house, with visits to a holy well, called in their native tongue, Derivla… Here the absence of religion is filled with the open practice of pagan idolatry. In the South Island, in the house of a man named Monigan, a stone idol, called in the Irish ‘Neevougi’ has been from time immemorial religiously preserved and worshipped. This god in appearance resembles a thick roll of home-spun flannel, which arises from the custom of dedicating a dress of that material to it, whenever its aid is sought; this is sewed on by an old woman, its priestess, whose peculiar care it is.
The castle in this picturesque fishing village was built in the
15th century by the Laffan family, descendants of the first
Norman settlers in Wexford. The adjacent salthouse was
constructed in the 17th century and was used to salt the fish
that was landed here in the harbour.
After the Normans arrived in the late 12th century Slade was
part of the Wexford lands that were granted to the Knights Templar by King Henry.
When they arrived the devout Normans encouraged a strict
approach to the Christian faith in Ireland. The medieval church
forbade the eating of meat on certain days and at certain times of the year. As a result fish was a very valuable resource along the south Wexford coast. The Normans used several
different methods for preserving fish such as smoking drying and salting
In the 17th century the harbour was extended and the stone salthouse was constructed. In the salthouse large lumps of rock salt were dissolved in boiling water to make brine which
was then evaporated to produce salt. Much of the rock salt was imported from Cheshire in England.
THIRTYARDS 
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