Swans on the Grand Canal - a miracle in front of our eyes

Yesterday across Ireland

there were real signs of spring. 

The clocks have gone forward, the evenings are stretching out  and the days getting longer.

Just some six months or so we were worried, indeed. scared that we might run short of gasor electricity. We’ve survived. But what must it be

like for the people of Ukraine, the people of Yemen, for people all over the world who are suffering?

We have no understanding whatsoever of the suffering and trauma experienced by people who pay large sums of scarce money to travel in unseaworthy sea vessels to find peace and hope.

To an outsider looking on Britain’s plans to send such people to Rwanda is abhorrent.

These swans were enjoying life on Dublin’s Grand Canal near Charlemont Bridge yesterday. And how they care for themselves and for each other is a miracle in front of our eyes.

Shipping people to Rwanda is far from miraculous.