The Rarest Gifts Ask For Patience There is an old Highland story about a flag. Not an ordinary banner carried into every battle, but a sacred one, carefully folded away and protected by the Clan MacLeod. It was known […]
Some Calls Arrive Before We’re Ready The old stories say the Blue Men of the Minch did not announce themselves with crashing waves or thunder. The sea might look almost ordinary. A sailing ship would be making its way through the […]
The Light That Looked Like Direction Some paths only appear when we are already lost. In the old stories, travelers crossing marshland sometimes saw a light moving ahead of them. It hovered low over the bog, pale and flickering, not […]
The Woman From the Sea Along the western shores of Gaelic Scotland, people spoke of the selkies. On certain nights, when the tide was low and the moon rode pale above the sea, the seals were said to come ashore. […]
