Two dear friends and I have been working with this deck every morning for the last few months and I wanted to share it with you. It’s been wonderfully enlightening and helpful to us as we choose our respective card and then reflect on it for the day - or throughout the day, I should say. The messages are clear and simple, yet profound concepts to walk with through a busy day.
Read MoreIt has been a while since we've drawn a spirit animal card, You might think of this as just a card to ponder or meditate on for the day, or you might think of it as a spirit guide or as your particular spirit animal (totem). While I was shuffling the cards, I was thinking of the summer breezes and wishing they would bring in new vitality and insight into my next project.
Read MoreI recently read that like an elevator speech in business, I should describe my book as “Where X Meets Y to give it a sassy placement in people’s minds. I am playing with Where Eat, Pray, Love Meets Outlanders. But I welcome your suggestions for a closer match. Although my books are spiritual and travel journeys, they are fiction, not memoirs. They are inspired by my travels and insights but fictionalized. And, although ancient standing stones and ancient sites feature heavily in both books, they are not historical fiction like Outlanders.
So friends and blog readers, come up with a spot-on Where X Meets Y and I will send you free copies of both the newly realized Celtic Spirit and of Amidst the Stones of Celtic Ireland.
Read MoreOne of the most exciting things about the revised Celtic Spirit is the graphics, especially the map on the back cover.
Read MoreI have just completed revising Celtic Spirit. This may sound trite, but it was shocking to realize that was 10 years ago. Soon I will have the chance to return to the Dublin, Ohio Irish festival where I sold the first books. Such a joy to have become connected to other authors and new readers from outside my Finger Lakes area.
Read MoreJuly is a great time to begin envisioning a new story for ourselves and our world. The monthly oracle draw gives guidance from the cards.
Read MoreLoch Seaforth, Scotland creates the border between The Isles of Lewis and Harris in the Western Hebrides, Scotland. Its extensive meanderings create much of the beauty and magic of the sacred landscape that centers around the Callanish Stone Circles. I have vowed to return. I also realize there is so much more for me to research and learn.
Read Morehere are two well-known holy Islands in Ireland, one on Lough Derg, County Donegal; the other on a different Lough Derg in the Shannon River basin that creates borders for Counties Clare, Galway, and Tipperary. They both are sacred sites with long Christian histories and ancient ruins, but they are drastically different in spiritual perspective and present day
Read MoreBeing on the water brings up memories of some Celtic places that I thought I would highlight in this month’s blogs. I grew up around lakes but never around the ocean, so you'll find that in my books and in my travels I gravitate to coastal settings.
Read MoreI never tire of the stories of Avalon. The deck I choose to pull the oracle card from this month as a whole is a very rich source of information and inspiration. The particular card I drew for us is not at all specific to the Avalon story. It is, however, universal and always applicable to our lives. I used to teach interpersonal communications and human relations and so the subject has become part of me.
Read MoreIt is rhododendron season, both here in the Finger Lakes of New York and in Ireland. Sadly, I can’t be in Ireland this spring, but I am fortunate to see a few of these beautiful bushes around my hometown.
Read MoreI am in the middle of updating and revising my 2012 book, Celtic Spirit and I have a rather fun dilemma regarding sheep. Yes, sheep. I have pictures of sheep in the middle of the road in Scotland and Ireland that dates back to my first trip as a teenager in 1963.
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