Inspiration Blog

This November holds memorable experiences punctuated by fluctuations of cold temperatures and sunny days. Unusual for the normally...

ElizabethCarefoot.com painting Most people don’t realize that Halloween has its origins in Scotland. Many of the customs were brought...

As the autumn mornings become chillier, I find bowl of porridge helps start the day. I didn’t know about the traditions, although once I...

Equinox – September 22, 2013 – Wyoming It was a wet and warm autumn in Wyoming this year. The drive with friends from Ranchester up into...

Often on the move is an internal exploration involving times of reflection following travel. Right now I am in Casper, Wyoming and awake...

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

Another river theme. This is an excerpt from a piece by Paul Simon about Seamus Heaney. I don’t necessarily agree with Simon about the...

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the...

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

An earlier post reference to Heaney Note: Since visiting Derry, his words, his life, his courage stir me in ways I could never have...

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” Pat Conroy

still on the move, watch out

My first music at Findhorn was on the Sunday the day after I arrived. We traveled by shuttle from Cluny to Findhorn Park to join in Taize...

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...

I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the...

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...