The Isle of Iona

A pilgrimage of the Christian kind.

These are actual ferns growing out of the twelfth century rock walls

My father was born and raised in a rural part of Manitoba, Canada. He and his five brothers and sisters were subjected to a “fire and brimstone” Evangelical type of Christianity. The kind when as children you are told things like, “if you chew gum you are going to hell!”-kind. So, looki…