Special places in the world

I've been starting to revise narratives and posts about our cottage in Quebec, as I posted on Natural Gardening yesterday.

Serendipitously buying a house in Quebec two years ago qualifies as a sort of pilgrimage, as I wrote a couple of days ago -  it's certainly been a journey.

Now, in pandemic times, we're here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, not in our cottage. 

That's OK, even though I wish we were there.

So, how to make sense of these times?  How do those of us privileged to be able to stay home turn this into times of re-visioning?

I certainly have no answers.

I was looking for an image of a road near where I was staying during a writer's retreat in Ireland several years ago.  It reminded me of the way forward and David Whyte's wonderful poem Pilgrim.

But this image, of Healy Pass, on the Dingle Peninsula, is even better.  What a wonderful place to remember this evening.