As I write this, the end of the first year of the new millennium is closing in. It's November 1. Celtic New Year, a day when it was thought by the ancients that the layer between this world and the otherworld diminished and souls passed freely from one to the other. In the Ireland of my childhood on October 31. All Hallow's Eve, the elders left out food for those visiting … [Read more...] about The First Word: The Wealth of Our Heritage