We skip now to Day Four of Celtic Spirit. One of Ireland’s most treasured and iconic sites, Clonmacnoise, is on offer today as the group travels eastward. Our narrator is Jake.
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Today, we continue the experiment of my sharing audio excerpts from Celtic Spirit. The tour leader, Dorrie, offers short prayers or rituals at each of the thin places or sacred sites the group visits. These are her words as the group gathers at the top of the hill at the Cliffs of Moher:
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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.
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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.
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It 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.
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I 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.
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One of the most exciting things about the revised Celtic Spirit is the graphics, especially the map on the back cover.
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I 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.
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July is a great time to begin envisioning a new story for ourselves and our world. The monthly oracle draw gives guidance from the cards.
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Loch 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.
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here 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
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Being 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.
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