Weaving moments

Weaving moments

Forty Shades of Change.

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back— a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” (Anaïs Nin)

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Annette Payne
Apr 16, 2025
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Éire. The official name for Ireland in Irish.
The Emerald Isle. A name born from its lush, rolling, impossibly green hills — not just one kind of green, but forty shades of it, as the song says.
Hibernia. That’s what the Romans called it. One of the few lands they never managed to conquer.
Ierne. Said the Greeks.
Erin. Whispered the English.
Inis Ealga. The …

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