Anam Cara

LANDSCAPE

“Landscape has a soul and a presence, and landscape—living in the mode of silence—is always wrapped in seamless prayer.”

For the radio series “This Place Speaks to Me,” I invited contributors to choose a particular location that appealed to them and “enthuse” about that appeal in a location recording. They chose a range of sites—a town, a bog, a jail, a monastic ruin. John O’Donohue chose the “holy mountain” of Máméan in Connemara. Máméan has association with St. Patrick and has long been a place of pilgrimage. So it was that John and I began our pilgrimage on a misty morning in August 2000.