Inspiration Blog

Throughout my life during personal, cyclical and societal changes I have always turned to music as a trusted companion for solace and...

Rotkäppchen Munich 2002 – Galli Theatre Virginia Gillespie, Grandmother The bi-lingual version of the fairy tale Rotkäppchen – Red...

Playwright Brian Friel died today. Special moments all round Dublin theatres tonight. This public art piece is in an alley between Temple...

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30. FOURTEEN lines, ONE Portugese writer-actor, TEN volunteer reciters. BY HEART by writer-actor Tiago Rodrigues,...

Dartington Hall Devon September 2015

Travel plans are moving out of the mists. We will soon be departing for England and Ireland to visit family and also to attend the Dublin...

This story is from 2002. I will be traveling again in Ireland in the autumn and hope that the magic I found then is still there… I wonder...

Winter Solstice 2015. Today I remember Maeshowe in the Orkneys and think of how this winter festival still stirs my imagination….. You...

My story was accepted as part of the of the If Women Rose Rooted Like Trees project 2014 by Sharon Blackie in Donegal. Originally posted...

I’m in Alberta at an artist retreat. The population 5000 rural town is similar to ones I know in Wyoming and Colorado, only there are...

Fierce guardian of sheep from coyotes, he loves to have his nose rubbed. Farm, Alberta Canada

Border Eco-diversiy Tapestry. A new Road trip. This time, third night from Crescent Beach, South Surrey eastwards along southern British...

So lush this year and enough sun for growing herbs and other cooking tidbits.

A year and a day – A Celtic phrase that marks the passage of one cycle into the next. Not a wheel spinning round and round, but a spiral....

Ah! Frozen pool morphs into reflective mirror gently catching ephemeral message of plum blossom font.

Bliadhna mhath ur! • [ blee-unna va oor ] Happy New Year English: Fireworks over Edinburgh on New Year’s Eve (Photo credit: Wikipedia)...

Winter Solstice – a time for tales and rituals. For me it is the sublime holiday for people of the northern hemisphere. This year it...