Grace Wells
speaker
164 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Grace Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if the solstice horizons are clear, you can see in the south the Kerry Mountains.
In the west, the Aran Islands, where the pale cliffs of Dune Angus shimmer majestically up out of the waves.
To the north, you can see Connemara and count its twelve bends.
The land and the day both feel spread out before you, unending.
I like to keep the solstice free, to take the day off, to not have anything to do but watch its long hours pass.
More than at any other time, I want to be here, on the earth, witnessing its beauty.
The day is for me a kind of retaking of a vow, a remaking of a promise I have made to myself that I will not squander my life here on earth.
I shall not die without ever having really seen this place and its wonders.
The solstice reminds me not to take our world's beauty for granted.
It reminds me to get up more often to witness the sunrise.
to always salute the moon when I see her, to live by the earth's rhythms and let the seasons and light itself enchant me, govern me.
Of course, I forget my vow over and again.
All through my ordinary days, I forget and remember.
and forget.
But the solstice reawakens my vow.
It pushes me to get up for the dawn, to pitch a tent in the wild, to linger with the moon and stars as they pass overhead.
This midsummer, I will go again to Palnabrone Dolmen, deep in the Burren.
I will go not because of any alignment of its stones, but because it is the oldest marker of human ritual in this place.
Stones aligned for the purpose of reverence.
I will go to Palmebrone because I went there too in deep midwinter, when the long dark ruled and night came down at four in the afternoon.
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