A woman on a journey to self-discovery finds herself face-to-face with her deceased grandfather in Donegal. The encounter throws her into disarray and forces her to confront unresolved issues.
What has you here?’ Eight years dead and safe in a Galway graveyard, yet here Grandad was standing before menight, and I was trying to forgive transgressions – mine and others’ – and failing. I didn’t know yet that the year ahead would hold undoing after undoing. I was mired in my anger, raising hurts to the heavens like a chalice. But hope was chinking through, though I couldn’t quite grasp it, because I couldn’t hold on to anything good then. Not yet.
But I need to go forward, then back a little. No, actually, no – let me stay in that moment. Me, alone in a hotel room, in atown, a strange place to me, with sharper seasons than those in my own county. And the moon a seductive opaline slice, clinging to its darker half. I wanted to go outside and stare at the moon, the way it always begs staring. So, I pulled on my new silver coat – a cheer-me-up purchase – and went out into the cold night to walk. I was in Donegal to work through everything about myself and Cormac, to decide whether I wanted to go forward side by side or not. I thought the distance, and ancient immutability of Donegal – the very Donegalness of it – would reset me, or clarify things, or give me solid, obvious answers. But, of course, none of that was happening because I was resolutely stuck, cantankerous and wounded. It was frosty beneath the glory of the waxing moon, pinned above the Atlantic. I followed the seawall and kept my eyes to the sky and that joyful crescent. The tide was low, but I could hear the water’s lullaby a little way off and its call was sweet to my ear. I wandered and gazed at the moon, parsing out its seas and craters where I could, basking in its glow. And, because my eyes were hooked heavenwards, I managed to slam right into a man who was walking the path; he yelped and leapt backwards.!” while I gawped at my grandad’s face, complete with planetary glasses, and heard his walking stick percuss against the footpath in franticI was stunned. “But you’re .
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