A Gaelic (Re)Creation of the Cosmos

It’s been a long time since the last post — so long that I’ve gotten a new phone and new laptop, and had to stop and think for a minute to remember how to even log in here — but I wanted to share a piece of writing I’m proud of. At this past Wellspring Festival, I competed in the competition for the Bardic Chair, for which the core components are the performance of a story, a poem, and a song. I have plenty of songs and poems in my files, but few stories; I couldn’t pull something from the archives. Instead, I sat down and wrote a Gaelic creation myth, drawing on various bits of lore and my ever-deepening relationships with Manannán mac Lir and with the Cailleach Bheur.