Last night, Saint Patrick’s Day 2024, John Fancher McGee was telling a couple dozen friends a story from ten years ago. He shared about a magical couple of days we spent together at the Emerald Isle.

Suddenly the Muse struck. I flipped into “thin space.”

Now I want to tell you my Ireland stories.

Every now and then my wife Laura says to me, “You haven’t been to Ireland in a while. You’re overdue.” I buy a plane ticket and go.

“Hey Perry, how many times have you been to Ireland?” John asked.

“20.”

Ireland is my “legal mistress”… and I’m only half kidding. I have a relationship with her, much like one has a relationship with a person. She’s temperamental, she’s mothering, she’s tender, she’s unyielding and resolute, she’s beautiful, she’s wise, and immensely powerful. She possesses healing powers.

If I haven’t seen her for a long time, I miss her. Just like a dear friend or relative.

Megan Macedo says “Sometimes you need to stand on a cliff and feel insignificant.” Several of the biggest shifts in my life have happened when I was doing exactly that.

The first time I went there, I experienced a shift… but didn’t quite recognize what had happened.

My second trip, another shift. And this time I KNEW it. I was never the same. After that, I had a bond and connection to nature itself. It tilted my entire view of the world and my experience in it. My relationship to the earth itself.

There’s a reason why half of the most influential writers and poets of the English language have come from this tiny windswept land, and a reason why I’m holding a retreat there June 7-14.

And since this is a little “off topic,” I’m only sharing these stories with thosewho want to hear them.

With your permission, I’d like to relate a series of tales and experiences about my “happy place.”

I don’t know how many installments there will be. I only know I’ve got many stories to share.

Register and the first will come today.

Perry Marshall