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The Brendan Voyage


This is now reading, actually. It's a book. more on this in a bit...
as promised. Explorer adventurer Tim Severin set out from the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, in a leather and wood curragh, with 4 other men (later three), to see if the stories told in the 9th cenutry manuscript telling of St. Bredan's voyage and long thought to suggest the Irish reached America before the Vikings and before Columbus, could be true. Long and short of it, yes. Severin's Voayge took place in the late 1970s; Brendan's if one believes that, in the fourth century. Each worth reading about for connection and confrontation between people and nature, and one's own nature. They made it to Newfoundland -- Severin and his companions, that is, and if one follows on the evidence, Brendan and his too.

Creative practice: curragh, storms

Several posts back, we started talking about the curragh, that Celitc v ersion of the hero's journey, where one sets out with only the smallest of boats to cross the sea. Any sea journey runs into storms, of all sorts, and their aftermaths. As does, when you think of it, any creative project.

Alison Brown has a tune inspired by legendary small boat sailor St. Brendan on her album Replay

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creative practice: curragh, part two

what appears afar off in the distance may at times be closer that it seems. sometimes, however, still takes a while to reach.