Autobiography
With openness and vulnerability, 79-year-old priest Charles Ramsay tells his life story, beginning with his ancestors, two of the famous Forfar Botanists.
He tells tales of his Celtic grandparents, especially his grandmother, a weaver from Dundee and a Seannachie (storyteller) and his Irish grandfather, a supporter of Glasgow’s Red Clydesiders. He relates childhood joys, struggles and traumas in Govan, Glasgow and how roots of storytelling, imagination and contemplation develop. He describes his difficult youth and work as a civil servant in London and Liverpool, his formation as a priest in Ireland and adventures as an unorthodox priest in North Wales.
You see how, from childhood, this one life gradually becomes a lens with which to see and value the natural world as a source of joy and healing. You see how he is called to be a priest, despite feeling unworthy. All life is woven together.
He hopes this will help us share stories and connect better with the ‘big picture’ of life whether we are people of faith or not. To help with this, the book shows how the evolution of the Earth is itself a story, and a hopeful one.
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