Experience the sacredness held within the voice and tradition of Irish oral storytelling. Enjoy at your leisure - maybe curled up with a warm cuppa tea or held within the wild embrace of the magical natural world that surrounds you.
Mo ghrá go léir / All my love,
Erica
I’m a writer who’s not married to her words being read.
Because I’m an oral storyteller - and bringing stories to voice is woven within my being.
As a storyteller, I believe tales have a spirit all their own.
Sometimes they arrive in images — at other times, as songs. But more often than not, they introduce themselves through feelings. Starting as yearning, a whirling, or strumming of my heart-strings, then echoing as a physical sensation in my chest.
This is where we meet. In the heart space. The sacred liminal space as kindred spirits.
Here, my role is to listen and then to seek.
To place the words upon the page and then to speak.
I often describe my work as sacred storytelling because it's a collaborative dance with the spirit(s) of the Otherworld. Because it’s not solely my story. It’s our story. And while it may have resonance within the scaffolding of my being, I am a storyteller because I’m called to bring these stories to voice.
Previously, in The Calling of the Sea and a Lost Sealskin, I shared a vision I had sitting upon the shores of County Kerry.
In the weeks that have followed, I’ve sat and listened to the spirit of this burgeoning story.
I’ve asked the Selkie Mother what she had intended to say to me.
And here, within the inaugural episode of the Into the Circle podcast, I share her love-filled response.
… the deeper I lean into the stories of my bones rooted in my Irish ancestry,
the more I realize that words can channel a story.
But the voice brings its spirit to life.
Being of Irish and French ancestry, I continue to be reverently grateful to the traditional spirits and keepers of the land [past, present, and forth-coming] of the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg People; where I was born and currently reside.
Culture, language, and stories run within the rivers and are held within the stones of landscapes. Míle buíochas, a thousand thanks, for the opportunity to live, create, share stories, and alongside you.
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Buíochas ó chroí / Heartfelt thanks,
Erica
