Their connecting lines on this flow chart lead to a plot in another book, I suppose. Now throw in ALL the other supernaturals you can think of with detailed descriptions of their powers, histories, and relationships (which have no bearing on this story), along with all the contrived names of people and places in the other world where the main character spends time, and you may find yourself wringing your hands trying to keep track of it all.for no reason though, because most of them don't have a storyline yet. Without much prelude, she discovers and accepts that she is a powerful witch and that her new found community needs her to save them. Her best friend is a grossly clichéd gay guy sidekick who has the personality of a 1980's sitcom. In this story, a young woman discovers that her mom has been hiding the truth about her dad so off she goes to Ireland to track him down. Is it just me or is anyone else worn out with this theme? Maybe it would be tolerable if there was some fresh concept, but no, there is not, it has all been covered before. And where her true destiny lies - through a portal in Galway that takes her to a land of faeries and mermaids, to a man named Keegan, and to the courage in her own heart that will guide her through a powerful, dangerous destiny.Ī Macmillan Audio production from St. It’s time you came home." Why she dreamed of dragons. Here, she will begin to understand why she kept seeing that silver-haired, elusive man, why she imagined his voice in her head saying, "Come home, Breen Siobhan.
But little does Breen know that when she uses some of the money to journey to Ireland, it will unlock mysteries she couldn’t have imagined. This newfound fortune would be life-changing for anyone. It has been funded by her long-lost father - and it’s worth nearly four million dollars. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: Her mother has been hiding an investment account in her name. Now she’s an anxious 20-something mired in student debt and working a job she hates. When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. In another realm known as Philadelphia, a young woman has just discovered she possesses a treasure of her own. In the realm of Talamh, a teenage warrior named Keegan emerges from a lake holding a sword - representing both power and the terrifying responsibility to protect the Fey.
When the time arises, do this one thing with great reverence and gratitude.Number one New York Times best-selling author Nora Roberts begins the Dragon Heart Legacy - a new trilogy of adventure, romance, and magick in The Awakening. Rise slowly, feeling beautifully human, and enter your day with the conscious intent of doing one thing that only humans can do. Think of the pebble and the piece of bark and the stone bench, and center your breathing on the interior things that you can do that they can't. Breathe slowly and think of the ant and the blade of grass and the bluejay and what these life forms can do that you can't. Sit outside, if possible, or near a window, and note the other life forms around you. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. But today you are precious and rare and awake. Tomorrow you could die and become an ant, and someone will be setting traps for you. So what will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? What will you ask and of whom? But we were blessed-in this time, in this place-to be human beings, alive in rare ways we often take for granted.Īll of this to say, this precious human birth is unrepeatable. That I can rise from some depth of awareness to express this to you and that you can receive me in this instant is part of our precious human birth. It asks us to recognize that, of all the endless species of plant and animal and mineral that make up the earth, a very small portion of life has the wakefulness of spirit that we call being human. It asks us to understand that no other life form has the consciousness of being that we are privilege to.
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It asks us to look about at the ant and antelope, at the worm and the butterfly, at the dog and the castrated bull, at the hawk and the wild lonely tiger, at the hundred year old oak and the thousand year old patch of ocean. It is really a beautiful view of life that offers us the chance to feel enormous appreciation for the fact that we are here as individual spirits filled with consciousness, drinking water and chopping wood.
There is a Buddhist precept that asks us to be mindful of how rare it is to find ourselves in human form on earth. Of all the things that exist, we breathe and wake and turn it into song.