BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMWorkCalendar NAME:RMWorkCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Saint Patrick's Day - Good News Calendar DTSTAMP:20250302T180532Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:217-5-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n Read a story from my good news calendar\n\n\n\n https://a albc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/?tab=com ments#comment-889\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n OR read it in here\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n A little boy in the house with his father side mother\, come into the stu dy of his father. He hold a coloring page.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Hey Papa\ , my school wanted me to color this shamrock image any color I wanted and share it online\" \n\n The father look on and say: \"Nice choice of green son\"\n\n \"What do you know about Saint Patrick's Day Papa\": inquire th e son. The father nip his son. His son rub the nipped spot and give a litt le smile\, in a face of confusion. \n\n The father open his arms and the son sit on his lap\, coloring page in hand: \"Your grandmere nipped me if I didn't wear green on Saint Patrick's day\, but beyond a little\, I do no t know much. We are not Irish. But I know someone who knows far far more\" \n\n \"Oh yeah\, who dad\"\n\n \"Well\, where do I begin...\"\n\n Many yea rs in the past\, the father\, a younger man\, unmarried unparent\, stand i n front of a bar downtown Manhattan. A poster is in their window\, and the day is Saint Patrick's day.\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n He goes insi de and take a seat side friends. A waitress come by and ask what they will drink. R and LD\, or D and A want Guinnesses. The father to be\, alone\, choose the same. A waitress come by with a drink.\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n He takes his sip and all five enjoy the day. As the sun is soon to sleep\, the two couples go to their homes and the husband to be is alone\, walkin g to fifty ninth street. He could had gone into the train station to get o n the A train back home to Harlem\, before the Blacks were pushed out. But \, he chose to take a seat on a park bench and think of a lady on the othe r side of a southern sea.  He walk about a bench when he gets a nip. He l ift his foot up and he can not believe it. A little man is looking up at h im.\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \"Amadán mór thú!\" : yell the little man and he continue: \"Ní thuigeann tú mé ... ahhh watch were ya going you fat hach seacláide!\" \n\n The father to be look to the street. \n\n \"Iont ach!\, what do you think you are doing\, dreaming\, or drunk\"\n\n The hus band to be squat and speak to the little man:\"maybe I am\"\n\n The little man howl a laugh: \"I once out drank Fionn mac Cumhaill who as a boy was better than most men\, when he last saw his wife\, before he ventured away I challenged him to a contest of wine made in the deepest cave in Tir na nog by the loveliest tuathe de women... ahhh now we were truly drunk\, you are merely a weak bellied\"\n\n The father to be rise: \"well\, I apologi ze\, happy saint paddy day\"\n\n \"AHHHH!!!\": the little man yell out:\"Y ou dhaoine associate the shamrock with that blue scarved baiste\, that is not the truth\". The husband to be\, sit on a park bench. The little man s it next to him\, and he look out.\n\n \"Don't worry\, none can see me\": a nd the little man continue to shine a shoe\, a pendant made for a bigger n eck rolled up at his side\, and he continue as the father to be smile at h im: \"the truth is\, saint patrick was a good man\, but he never wanted al l this philandering and ag ol. He wanted calm\, serenity\, for when the re al magic happens\"\n\n \"Real magic?\": query the husband to be.\n\n \"Yes \, like when someone like you step on an old shoe shiner like me\": the li ttle man hold the medallion and continue: \"You need to be transported to a church for that old saint Patrick\, the banshee will be there\"\n\n The husband to be startle: \"banshee\"\n\n The little man laugh:\" calm down\, a banshee isn't like in your te-le-vi-sion stories\, banshees are helpful \, very helpful... they tell you who will pass away soon\, sometimes appea ring as loving ones\". The little man throw the medallion to the husband t o be and snap his fingers. Suddenly\, the father to be is in a church. \n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n eemingly empty\, the father to be hear names in the w ind. He walk down the isle of the church looking for the speaker. \n\n He opines to the calm air in the church:\"Ms or MRS Banshee\"\n\n He hears n ames over and over\, whispered. The air begin to mist and the voices get l ouder. He feels a cool behind him and sees a female emanation\, that look like a stranger\n\n\n\n \n\n EMBED CODE\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n She wails out names\, and turns into a younger girl\, and then a man\, and then an e lder. The husband to be do not comprehend why so many\, who is going to be gone. The father to be then realize the truth. The medallion shine in his hand\, and he snap from the church to the bench. \n\n The father to be l ook incredulous at the little man:\" I don't get it\"\n\n \"The lesson is for you to figure out\, that is what your kin never comprehend\, the world you call magic is safe\, so are old folk like from it\, but your lives ar e mortal\, are fragile\, but your spirits are eternal\, their magic is why we can speak to you sometimes\, try to guide you\, though...\" : and the little man disappear from sight\, the medallion leave the hand of the fath er to be\, and the voice of the little man continue:\"... we usually fail\ "\n\n The father to be rock in the park bench and get up\, shaking his hea d\, before the trek into the subway. \n\n Back in the present\, his son a sk a question. \n\n \"Did you remember the names you heard\, ever see tha t little man again?\"\n\n The father hold the son tight: \"no\, I can not recall any name\, but today I realize\, the lesson\"\n\n The son ask wonde ring: \"what lesson\"\n\n \"The kin of each person is each other person\"\ n\n \"Ceia is ready!\": a female voice call out. \n\n The son run out of the room\, the father smile behind him\, and exit his chair. The father ge t to the door and he hear the sound of a tiny cobbler\, and smile without turning back\, to get his supper.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n THE END\n\n\n\n  \n\ n\n\n I only had one work of art in my deviantart gallery that returned so mething visual from green/luck/rainbow \, but i found numerous in my favor ites\n\n\n\n https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/March-on-Green-F eature-expose-1168543402\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n If you like my story consider reading the following\n\n\n\n https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sunset-chil dren-stories\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n The irish song I like the most is one I fi rst heard in a movie called the Nephew\, in english \, from 1998. \n\n\n\ n LYRICS referrals\n\n\n\n https://lyricstranslate.com/en/fill-fill-run-re turn-return-my-love.html\n\n\n\n https://genius.com/Anuna-fill-fill-a-run- lyrics\n\n\n\n Lyrics in irish\n\n\n\n Fill\, fill a rún\n\n[Verse 1]\nÓ crá ort\, a shagairt Uí Domhnaill\nNach dona go deo mar a d'imigh tú\ nÓ léigh sé an tAifreann Dé Domhnaigh\n's bhí sé maidin Dé Luan ina mhinistir\n\n[Chorus]\nÓ fill\, ó fill a rún ó\nFill a rún ó\nIs ná h’imigh uaim\nÓ Fill orm a chuisle ‘s a stóirín\nÓ is gheo-g haidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú\n\n[Verse 2]\nDá bheic-feadh sibh Neilí Dé Dómhaigh\n'S a gúna bhán go sala uirthi\nBúclai buí in a bróga\n's í á tarraingt sa ród mar phúca\n\n[Chorus]\nÓ fill\, ó f ill a rún ó\nFill a rún ó\nIs ná h’imigh uaim\nÓ Fill orm a chui sle ‘s a stóirín\nÓ is gheo-ghaidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú\n\ n[Verse 3]\nTá malacht na sagart 's na mbráithre leat\nI do mhála ag im eacht duit\n'S nach measa duit malacht do mháthartha\nNá á bhaca tú a Iríamh den bhunadh sin\n\n[Chorus]\nÓ fill\, ó fill a rún ó\nFill a rún ó\nIs ná h’imigh uaim\nÓ Fill orm a chuisle ‘s a stóirín\n Ó is gheo-ghaidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú\n\nVerse 4\nÓ thréigh tú Peadar is Pól\, agus\nThréigh tú Eoin is an bhunadh sin\nÓ thré igh tú an Mhaighdeán ’s an ghlóir\, is\nNach dona go deo mar a d'imi gh tú\n\n[Chorus]\nÓ fill\, ó fill a rún ó\nFill a rún ó\nIs ná h’imigh uaim\nÓ Fill orm a chuisle ‘s a stóirín\nÓ is gheo-ghaidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú\n\n\n\n Lyrics in english\n\n\n\n Return\ , Return my Love\n\nOh woe unto you\, oh1 priest Ó Domhnaill\nDon't ever be so wretched as when you left\nOh he performed the mass on Sunday\nAnd w as a minister2 on Monday morning\n\nOh return\, oh return\, my love\, oh\n Return\, my love\, oh\, don't leave my side\nOh return\, my beloved3 and m y darling oh\nAnd you'll receive the glory if you do return\n\nIf you coul d see Neilí on Sunday\nAnd her white dress with heels on her\nYellow buck les on the shoes\nShe is being dragged in the street like a puck4\n\nOh re turn\, oh return\, my love\, oh\nReturn\, my love\, oh\, don't leave my si de\nOh return\, my beloved3 and my darling oh\nAnd you'll receive the glor y if you do return\n\nThe curse of the priests and the brothers5\nYou carr y with you in your leaving bag\nAnd worse for you your maternal6 curse\nDo n't ever block yourself from that heritage\n\nOh return\, oh return\, my l ove\, oh\nReturn\, my love\, oh\, don't leave my side\nOh return\, my belo ved3 and my darling oh\nAnd you'll receive the glory if you do return\n\nO h\, you forsook Peter and Paul\nAnd you forsook John and this heritage\nOh you forsook the Maiden and her glory\, and\nDon't ever be as wretched as when you left\n\nOh return\, oh return\, my love\, oh\nReturn\, my love\, oh\, don't leave my side\nOh return\, my beloved3 and my darling oh\nAnd y ou'll receive the glory if you do return\n\n1. vocative particle can be tr anslated as oh or sometimes as my\n2. i.e. he changed sides from Catholic to Protestant\n3. a. b. c. d. literally: pulse\n4. Irish mythical beings c onsidered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune\n5.religious brother s\n6.or your mother's curse\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n https://youtu. be/FjGSsBmZtOY?t=619\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250317 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR