The text below was written in January 2020, before I headed north – but never posted. The three books were just what I needed, along with On Kindness, by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor. I returned from Iona with many more.

Soon I’ll be returning to Scotland to join the ecumenical Christian community at Iona Abbey.

Change is in the air. Recommendations from friends, and good wishes, arrive daily.  Patrick Leigh-Fermor’s A Time to Keep Silence  dropped through the letter box, Alexander John Shaia’s Returning from Camino was suggested after I wondered about what happens when you get back home at the end of a special time away.  And Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together has found its way back into my hands again, the pages dulled around the edges and half of them dog-eared.  What are your suggestions?