Inspiration Blog

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....

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

Here we are in the Outer Hebrides near the Callenish Stones. Any resemblance?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero in Derry, Northern Ireland for those who viewed poverty and housing as Civil Rights issues. he...

still on the move, watch out

July 6, 2013 This is my final evening in Kingussie (king-you-see) in the Badenoch area. I have found it to be the happiest village in...

July 13, 2013 “So lassie, are you here to find your Scottish ancestors?” That tongue in cheek question has been asked of me time after...

My central symbol for this pilgrimage has been the labyrinth. A unicursal shape where you enter, wind along a path to a center point and...

Song Fest was commissioned by Peace III in celebration of traditional song from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales with concerts and...

One of the musicians at the Derry Song Fest said that the traditional songs in Gaelic are lots of little pictures strung together with...

Pea soup fog this morning at 7:15 a.m. No need for a photo. Twenty four hours ago I took a taxi to the Inverness airport. There was the...

Traveling historic Scotland is like an ode to war, where each mound, church, castle, field and waterway has layers of tales of conflict....

Two days of sun that breaks through after 11 a.m. and 20 degree heat, although it dissipates quickly in the evening. ‘Heat wave’ says the...

The cuisine in Scotland is delicious. Not only have I eaten local game, seafood, produce, and baking made in traditional ways, but...

Fairy Tree Argyll From a distance this looked like a fairy tree with a door at the base. As I walked closer, the grassy forelock and...

“1812-19 thousands of people were evicted from their black houses and holdings to make way for sheep” Sutherland is located in the...

Another late sunset. This night outdoors in Erskine near Glasgow. A few midges hover around even though I am supposedly back in...

It hardly seems possible but the last woman to tend this hearth fire moved from here in the 1960’s. This ‘Black House Arnol‘ built in...

Yes, the longest day did indeed occur here in Scotland. This photo is from the Isle of Lewis called a black house, a crofter dwelling...

first quarter moon; cloudy and windy The Isle of Lewis is often referred to as the edge of the world as it represents the far western...