Episode
Making Light: An Invitation… – by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
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- Emergence Magazine Podcast
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- Mar 31, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2106
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Summary
This week, Irish author Kerri ní Dochartaigh offers an evocation on how we might hold the duality of lightness and darkness in a world increasingly divided. When fear and loss are pervasive, how do we engage with the life that remains? Can we see experiences of grief as invitations into feeling our relationality with all living things? Tracing how a childhood in Derry in the northwest of Ireland taught her to tend the delicate, often invisible threads that bind us to each other, she brings us into the Celtic celebration of Bealtaine, which marks the transition towards the brightness of summer, to reveal how Earth’s cycles of light and dark are a dance of which we are a part. Read the essay. Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons . Photo by Al Brydon and J.M Golding