This novel is inspiring! It’s an epic adventure following closely life events of the author which makes it even more compelling. I read the author’s other book, Sacred Earth, (which I loved), so I decided to give this one a try and I am SO glad I did. This is a story of ancient Ireland and how the land no longer “spoke” to the Irish after St. Patrick introduced the religion of the Roman Church. It magically weaves through time
The Stuff Of Life When you cease so much doing, and are content just ‘to be’, then all things will talk to you and will share their qualities in their degree with you. Further, from that relationship between you, you will discover those qualities in yourself. Though mountains inspire us with their grandeur, seas with their varying moods of calm and storm; though foreign lands dazzle us with their difference of custom and garb in their peoples,
A Wish for the New Year… There is an old saying: ‘Life is a bridge – pass over it, but build no house upon it.’ Yet it is instinctive in human nature not only to seek physical shelter as we must, but also to shelter in beliefs, philosophies, ideas which do indeed help us to grow in wisdom and arrive at a degree of maturity. But we need to be aware that we do not take refuge in them too
This poem was inspired by the book Hidden Beauty Of The Commonplace by Philip Pegler. The writings of Philip Pegler and Clare Cameron provided vision for this poem. I encourage ALL to read Hidden Beauty of the Commonplace: A nature mystic’s reflections upon the true meaning of freedom and travel the divine current. Edge of Winter I slip into my Danish, cotton-lined rubber boots, neither skin nor fur sacrificed for warmth. Waxed cotton parka, purple gloves signal a