Sometimes those whose blood runs thick with Celtic heritage are brilliant, poetic, charismatic. Gifted but complicated. Some brilliant lights burn out far too soon.

I think what people call "weird" comes part and parcel with people who are brilliant in some way. So embrace your weird. Embrace your eccentricity.

Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.

Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them -- and others cower in the dark crying, "It burns! It burns!

Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can be no escape of reprieve. You must toil laying down the foundation stones of acceptance, stone by stone, until you have paved your way to your new life.

Let go of trying to change someone. Living as a positive example creates postive changes in those around you.