Author: Ava Grace Source: NaturalNews.com — Listening to Music: A Surprisingly Powerful Brain Workout Imagine a simple daily ritual that could protect your mind as you age. Sounds like a dream, right? But a recent study from Monash University, Australia, suggests that listening to music every day might do just that. Adults over 70 who…

Author: Fionnuala Fallon Source: The Irish Times Why Your Garden Needs a Bit of Autumn Mess If you’re the type who treats autumn leaves like enemy combatants in a tidy war, brace yourself for a radical idea: leave them be. Yep, put down that rake. This isn’t your grandma’s garden advice; it’s a new wave…

By Katie Mellett — The Irish Times It begins not with a step — but a breath. The kind that carries the first whispers of spring, a scent woven with fresh earth and promise. This is the new garden at Saplings Special School, Rathfarnham, where the ordinary has turned extraordinary. Imagine a garden where the…

Author: A Warm Storyteller Source: The Independent Harken! To the Feast of Fifty Years and Counting! In the great hall of the food-hoard, the famed Irish chef Clodagh McKenna, at the age of fifty winters, declares her joyous riddle: “I feel happier and healthier than in my thirtieth summer!” This sage dame, a conjurer of…