I too enjoy your perspectives and the unique manner you express. Each time you post it’s as though I’ve journeyed home to a place I’ve never known. ‘Suffering is no virtue’ sharply cleaved a wounded wing at its joint for me, healing as only a naked clarity can. Thank you for sharing your gifts here, they are deeply appreciated from this corner whenever you post.
Thank you so much Lea for such a beautifully raw comment, I’m glad to know my words resonate, it’s such an odd experience to write them in isolation and then fling them out into the world hopeful they will find somewhere to land… and I hope you found some balm for that wing.
Oh the synchronicity of reading this just after reading again Wild Geese by Mary Oliver... A couple of years ago, I read Savage Her Reply, by Deirdre Sullivan, which is a fierce and sorrowful feminist retelling of the Children of Lir, in Aoife's voice. It totally changed my outlook on the tale.
These tales tend to pick their moment don’t they? I’ll have to find this retelling, thank you. Candlelit Tales do a great version. As I’m sure you can tell I take issue with The Children of Lir as traditionally told, I have a lot more to say on the trope of the wicked stepmother, jealous woman and the fact that the monks wrote the only woman with any agency in the tale as evil, but it will weave through with this months tale.
I too enjoy your perspectives and the unique manner you express. Each time you post it’s as though I’ve journeyed home to a place I’ve never known. ‘Suffering is no virtue’ sharply cleaved a wounded wing at its joint for me, healing as only a naked clarity can. Thank you for sharing your gifts here, they are deeply appreciated from this corner whenever you post.
Thank you so much Lea for such a beautifully raw comment, I’m glad to know my words resonate, it’s such an odd experience to write them in isolation and then fling them out into the world hopeful they will find somewhere to land… and I hope you found some balm for that wing.
Oh the synchronicity of reading this just after reading again Wild Geese by Mary Oliver... A couple of years ago, I read Savage Her Reply, by Deirdre Sullivan, which is a fierce and sorrowful feminist retelling of the Children of Lir, in Aoife's voice. It totally changed my outlook on the tale.
These tales tend to pick their moment don’t they? I’ll have to find this retelling, thank you. Candlelit Tales do a great version. As I’m sure you can tell I take issue with The Children of Lir as traditionally told, I have a lot more to say on the trope of the wicked stepmother, jealous woman and the fact that the monks wrote the only woman with any agency in the tale as evil, but it will weave through with this months tale.
I yearn for these landscapes you paint with words. Thanks for this tale.
Thank you Josh.
wonderful and enjoy county Clare
Thank you! It was magical