the raven

Having been inspired by Mark’s reading from Living Druidry the other week I went out and bought it. Read it in one sitting (sitting was the operative word. I sat up till 3am, but never mind). Have other people read it? What did they think? I was fascinated by it and had a lot of contradictory feelings. In some ways very envious because Emma Restall Orr seems to have not only a very sympathetic husband but also endless access to a forest, which would be my idea of absolute heaven. Also in some ways I was very depressed by it because it rather seemed to imply that you couldn’t really get close to the kind of intensity which constitutes real Druidry unless you could do all those kinds of things she did ie spend hours and hours and hours just being and communing and listening, alone and undisturbed by other people and their demands, and how on earth do 99 out of 100 of us manage that? At the same time, I felt very inspired, because I did kind of understand her approach and totally agreed with her ideas about Deity and her utter passion for the natural world. It made me cry. Did anyone else have strong feelings about this book?!