

At Home in the Elements: John O’Donohue’s Minding of Our World.
‘I was born in a limestone valley. To live in a valley is to enjoy a private sky.’
Anam Cara p107 The valley that John O’Donohue grew up in was situated in the Burren, County Clare, West Coast of Ireland. He was a poet, philosopher, priest, mystic but always described himself as a ‘peasant of the valley.’ He was born here in 1956 and is now buried. At John O’Donohue’s funeral in 2008, his brother Pat described him as: ‘a big, beautiful and gentle presence in the world, also


Eastern View Beach: Where the Road Turns
Epiphany 2018 That You will not let us go, though in our going stay with us, and not reproachful nor alarmed but listening, watchful even with us in human form and divine, then I have courage. That You will not let us go, though it may be so that we ourselves turn and stray, alone under the too hot sun or shivering under the night sky, then I have hope. That You will not let us go, we who wander off perpetually perplexed and tired, cynical as some who cannot even trace Your l


Playing with Bird Bones In A Room With No View: A Journey Through Selected Works of Annie Dillard.
Dedicated to the memory of Max Richards. Friend and poet mentor. Narrator: Annie Dillard: ponderer of life, astute observer of nature. Her prose constantly calls us to position and reposition ourselves in response to her ideas and those of other quoted essayists, poets, philosophers, scientists, rabbis, anthropologists……. Statement of fact and interpretative meaning often go hand in hand. Sometimes it feels as if we, the reader, fall through her prose. Sometimes, it’s like