It’s a Bank Holiday, or long weekend,  here in Ireland, so one immediately feels as if there is more time to slow down and take a break from the rushing which the working week inevitably impresses on the mind. A certain space enters, allowing us to see things more lightly, or to see them with eyes that have the room to appreciate them:

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense.

Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright. 

Karl Rahner, Catholic Theologian, 1904 – , 1984