Lara Tupper: Swift Ink Stories

The veil is thin

In Ireland, I had the good fortune to visit Brigid's Well (or one of them), a site for pilgrims to converge and commemorate their departed. Tony, our guide, said, “It’s best to visit the well between dusk and dawn, the time when the veil between the living and the dead is thin … or so the ancients believed.”

This stayed with me. How I wish I could communicate with certain beloved ghosts. I wrote about this in a recent article for Kripalu:

It’s a comfort to imagine the collective ghosts of Brigid’s Well. I think of the ribbons tied to trees there, evidence of modern pilgrims paying close attention, standing on that ground in superstition or devotion, in grief or wonder. I’d felt the imprint they’d made.

Link to full article, "Searching for Brigid, Celtic Goddess and Icon," in Kripalu Resources

OCTOBER WRITING EXERCISE: Which departed ghosts would you like to communicate with? And what would you say to them? Give yourself 10 minutes to freewrite without self-judgment. Breath…