August 15

​‘I see this same sense of openness in your generation’ says Great Grandmother. ‘Now that we take in tourists to our house I see from them how once dominant pathways to belief have lost their appeal.

It is not that the original message is wrong. But the priesthoods who have carried the messages have distorted them. So often they have constructed a false authority for political and social purposes and for a masculine dominated world. In doing so, they have distanced both themselves and their message from people today.

Me in my generation, and you in yours, reject their interpretations. You can reject it overtly. For my generation the questioning born in the wartime summers had to be hidden’.
 
‘I see this openness on how to respond to the challenges of our journeys taking on new forms.

​Many of those who come this way look for a sense of completeness in the evolving story of the natural environment they find up here in the mountains. Others look to come to terms with what is a given in their self-identity by a search for ancestry. In this land of so many journeys I like to think that today’s travellers also begin to recognize the damage done by those who claim certainty. These summer migrations taught me to live with hope and an open heart’.