Includes index.

Contents:

Courage and conversation: setting out with a firm persuasion

The mountain farm: a stranger at the door

At the cliff edge of life: from powerlessness to participation

A star for navigation: ambition, horizon, and arrival

Out of Ireland: a short sea crossing

The awkward way of the swan walks: from exhaustion to wholeheartedness

The fatal shore: arrival and authenticity

Outlaw imaginings: when the real you wants you out

A marriage with silence: escaping the prison of time and work

Crossing the unknown sea: a voyage through the hours of the day

Keats and conversation: the new and newly youthful world of work