Writing the Ancient Forest: Exploring the Ancient Irish Tree Alphabet through Story, Myth and Metaphor - Paperback

by Amber D. Ferrebee (Author)

What if you could tap into the ages-old knowledge of the trees? What if you could sit beneath their leaf covered braches and listen to their stories? What tales might you hear? In a quest to answer these questions the author took various medical, mythical, and mystical tree lore, combined it with information about their historical and current uses, mixed in scientific facts about our arboreal friends and then let it all mingle in her subconscious. The result is a collection of short stories, poems, and essays inspired by the trees of the Ancient Irish Ogham (o-um) Alphabet. Some are uplifting. Some are dramatic. Some are humorous. All tap into the spirit and symbolism of the trees that inspired them.

Author Biography

Over the years Amber's brain has developed a taste for taking bits and pieces of seeming unrelated material and linking them together in new and unpredictable ways. She warns people to never ask her a question they aren't sure they want and answer to because you just never know what her brain may come up with next or how snarky it will be. Amber feeds her creative machine by endlessly looking for things to learn and experience which allows her to concoct new ways of looking at the world around her. She has had this thirst for knowledge and a love of the written word since she was a child. Originally from the hills of West Virginia, she developed a love of trees and the beauty of the deep woods. These days she spends most of her time in the Flat Lands with her two feline roommates.