ON A WING AND A PRAYER

I recently finished reading Robert L. Harris’ memoir, Returning Light. Harris was the warden on Skellig Michael for over 30 years. Skellig Michael is a craggy rock that rises steeply 715 feet out of the Atlantic Ocean seven miles off the southwest coast of Ireland. Skellig Michael was inhabited by Celtic monks beginning in the 6th century but abandoned sometime around the English Reformation. Remote and inaccessible, a few thousand people visit every ...