The Geecologist

Landmarks

Landmarks

Mar 28, 2020 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my guess that other tongues in these islands also possessed wealths of words for features of place – words that together constituted a vast vanished, or vanishing, language for...
The Sound of the Mountain

The Sound of the Mountain

Apr 14, 2007 | Fiction | 0 comments

Though august had only begun, autumn insects were already singing. He thought he could detect a dripping of dew from leaf to leaf. Then he heard the sound of the mountain. It was a windless night. the moon was near full, but in the moist, sultry air the fringe of...