Circular Time is a detailed guide to Scotland's stone circles, cairns, standing stones, brochs, and Celtic crosses. This thoughtful journey through time is arranged as a tour of Scotland's most intriguing antiquities, taking visitors to more than 250 sites. Handy ordinance map coordinates are provided for every site, leading explorers to some of the country's most beautiful, and sometimes hidden, locations.
Circular Time is a detailed guide to Scotland's stone circles, cairns, standing stones, brochs, and Celtic crosses. This thoughtful journey through ti...
Aware Practice looks at meditation, heightened perception, trance, and lucid dreaming from the perspective of direct experience. As a concise guide, it cuts to the core of understandings -- the emphasis is on living in awareness, whatever the individual practice.
Aware Practice looks at meditation, heightened perception, trance, and lucid dreaming from the perspective of direct experience. As a concise guide, i...
The tumble of Gaelic history through the Highland Clearances and the Irish Land Wars provide this novel's momentum. Threaded through the historical drama is a modern American woman's quest for rooted identity and her affair with an Irish Republican. At the story's center is the enigma of Rona, the Selkie. Is she a mythic creature, or the shattered consequence of social injustice? While the ancestral story moves through struggle, loss, and fortitude, the modern story tangles with questions of history's legacy -- how we make choices about what to carry, and how to move forward with inherited...
The tumble of Gaelic history through the Highland Clearances and the Irish Land Wars provide this novel's momentum. Threaded through the historical dr...
A Hebridean community discovers the most iconic of Scottish artifacts -- the Stone of Destiny. Conspiracy to hide the Stone grows as more and more members of the community are drawn into the age-old tug of war between the autonomy of the Isles and the forces of crown bureaucracy. A tale of a community getting one-up on the system, the lass getting the lad, the downtrodden having at least a couple not-bad days, and New Agers getting a wee poke in the ribs.
A Hebridean community discovers the most iconic of Scottish artifacts -- the Stone of Destiny. Conspiracy to hide the Stone grows as more and more mem...
The thirty-two pieces in this collection are not at all the abstract discussions that "essays" can connote, The emphasis is on storytelling, often with humor, pieces full of robust observation, feelings, relevancies, and revelations about engagement with the world. Personal experience is set within the context of bit-picture issues like immigration, modern lifestyles, education, and civil protest. The prose pieces, coupled with poems, are strongly individual, yet universal in terms of human circumstances: "The single seed containing the expressing the entire harvest."
The thirty-two pieces in this collection are not at all the abstract discussions that "essays" can connote, The emphasis is on storytelling, often wit...
The poems in The Dogs of RockCut Road and other poems of place come from a backwoods way of life in rural America and Highland Scotland. Concrete and intimate, they chronicle a lifetime of relationship with what belongs to itself.
The poems in The Dogs of RockCut Road and other poems of place come from a backwoods way of life in rural America and Highland Scotland. Concrete and ...
In the newly united Scotland of the 850s, elite poets -- like druids in the past -- are power brokers. Aidan, poet to the High King, Kenneth MacAlpin, treads a precarious path between contentious chiefs, and old and new religions, as he guides his foster-sister through the equally precarious terrain of Second Sight. Historically based, full of lyric imagination, The Stringless Harp looks to one of Europe's oldest cultures in a tale of timeless integrity.
In the newly united Scotland of the 850s, elite poets -- like druids in the past -- are power brokers. Aidan, poet to the High King, Kenneth MacAlpin,...
