We have traveled from Limerick to Sligo today through spectacular Western Ireland... even in the rain this place is beautiful. There is something about the combination of earth and sky and, of course, basic people (I was going to write “raw” but that definitely is not it... and “natural” doesn’t do it... so I’m going with “basic.” I think I am somehow related to everybody here. I actually wouldn’t want to be confined to this island place for a whole lifetime, but I can see how someone born here after having had to move away would never be completely content anywhere else.
The "picture" I saw before I pulled the curtains closed on a ten-thirty setting sun at the Yeats Country Hotel was this sailboat and Sligo in the distance.