Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

1 week ago | kerrindochartaigh.substack.com | Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

Hello dear hearts, how are you all today? How are your hearts, those gorgeous, admirable, achy organs; red and real and beating? The first borage plant of the year gave its first flowers, and I wept when it happened. Full body tears, joyful as they were salty. I know, though it feels surreal to speak it, that this plant changed the course of my life. Her medicine has taken my heart and made it stronger, taken my body and made it softer, taken my heart and made it wider.

2 weeks ago | kerrindochartaigh.substack.com | Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

Bealtaine EveTomorrow when we waken the merry month of May will be on our doorsteps, singing to the hedgerow flowers left for the faeries…Life is wild right now, the world is too, but I took a moment to gather flowers and place them on the threshold of the beautiful home I’ll be leaving soon to move onto our land and oh my heart it was such a healing tonic.

2 weeks ago | kerrindochartaigh.substack.com | Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

This is a post for my paid community, and a taster is offered for free subscribers. I’ve seen lots of criticism of this recently, and want to begin by saying I’m sorry if this feels annoying/ unfair. My reason for doing this is that I personally subscribe to substacks based on having had a taster read, so I imagine others appreciate too. I so much appreciate all of you here, and as usual if you can’t afford a subscription but would appreciate one, reach out.

2 weeks ago | kerrindochartaigh.substack.com | Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

Hello to each and every one of you from a grey west of Ireland, soundtracked by busy, beautiful swallows. This is a free post, and I hope you find something of joy and hope here within these words and images. I’ve not been able to be here much these last weeks, and I have discovered that lots more of you are here reading my words than before, for which I am deeply grateful; by which I am deeply humbled. First, before the post, here is a wee intro to this substack.

1 month ago | kerrindochartaigh.substack.com | Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

This is a post for my paid community, and a taster is offered for free subscribers. I’ve seen lots of criticism of this recently, and want to begin by saying I’m sorry if this feels annoying/ unfair. My reason for doing this is that I personally subscribe to substacks based on having had a taster read, so I imagine others appreciate too. I so much appreciate all of you here, and as usual if you can’t afford a subscription but would appreciate one, reach out.