Dear blog readers and friends,

How would you like to become listeners as well? To roll out my newly revised Celtic Spirit, I am trying a new video format that will be available on my website and Celtic Spirit Facebook page.

The print version will appear as usual, and below is a video to enjoy. I will read an excerpt introducing you to one of the characters and highlighting one of the thin places the tour group visits. Photos I have taken of the place will run in the background.

From Chapter One, Day 1 of Celtic Spirit-A Journey of the Heart                     

Today we will begin with Timothy, the beloved bus driver of the group, who is talking about his own experience of the western shore of County Clare. He sets the tone for the tour ahead as he shares his thoughts on his beloved homeland.

County Clare has been my home since my birth. Yet, I shall never get over the feeling of awe as I drive up and down the hills along the Galway coast. The water is so blue and sparkling as it splashes on the sandy beaches in one place, and dark, powerful and foreboding as it pounds against the black rock of the cliffs in another. Promontories and sharp cut-outs vary the coastline to the left and green pastures both left and right are squared off by the slate gray of stone fencing. The fencing creates a ribbon-like effect across the vistas to the east that finally begins to give way to the bleak, stony Burren.

With a chuckle, I take the mic and share my Uncle George’s favorite line to visitors, probably not for the last time, “Sure, you have nothin’ like this in America?”

We reach the Cliffs themselves, and are they not just as grand today as the first time I came here as a wee boy? Maybe grander, for today we have the weather. ’Tis an auspicious sign for the twelve days of touring that lie ahead.

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