Main Street, Listowel in early summer 2025

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One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure

This shop has popped up at Scully’s Corner.

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Only God can Make a Tree

Horsechestnut tree at the entrance to Gaelscoil Lios Tuathail in May 2025

Trees

BY JOYCE KILMER

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

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Serendipity

Serendipity, according to the dictionary, is the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not looked for.

Last week in the Listowel Vincent de Paul shop I found this treasure in a pile of old knitting patterns. It’s from 1963, so a throwback to the magazines of my childhood.

Look at this ad. The popgun, the cap, the tart, the block of hard margarine and the little boy/man in the hand knit jumper…happy days!

My mother didn’t buy Women’s Weekly but her friend, Breege Crowley, did. When we visited her we always came home with a bundle of the magazines to read and savour. I loved Roley and Rowena Robin.

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John Paul II Graveyard

Hard as it is to believe it, it’s a sad fact that people have been removing the watering cans from the cemetery. I met Patsey Kennedy replacing another one and marking it with a polite request to visitors to leave it behind when they leave the graveyard.

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Starting Next Sunday

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A Fact

In 1983 the first 5 horses home in the Cheltenham Gold Cup were trained by Michael Dickinson.

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