Waking Remembering

At the Booksellers at Laurelwood

All day I have been in a dull sadness at the death of an old friend, yet every time I think of him all I can see is his smile. A life well-lived yet...

  It is not the end of the world, but nascent light for the new year. I think of Newgrange in Ireland – that wonderful 5,000 year old monument that celebrates the birth of...

Today in this dreary day filled with so much sadness at what has happened to innocent children I have spent the day writing some of the final chapters to the next book in the...

Today would have been his 92nd birthday if he hadn’t left us yesterday. But he left us with a lot. His music plays in my memory today and also in my memory is a...

                     This is the “blow-hole” mentioned in the book on the coast of Ireland. The incoming tide through the hole in the rocks focuses the...