Rev Kingsley Taylor B.D., M.A. (Celtic Christianity), Vicar of a West Wales parish for 23 years was made Local Ministry Area Dean with oversight of 15 churches spanning Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire. Then suddenly the Lockdown happened. How do you keep in touch when the internet is not fast enough for live streaming? I sent emails to those I had the email address for and hoped the messages would be passed on. What started so simply has become global, messages of hope in these difficult times that have already helped so many.

Rev Kingsley Taylor B.D., M.A. (Celtic Christianity), Vicar of a West Wales parish for 23 years with oversight of 15 churches spanning from the mountain to the sea. I sent emails to those I had the email address for at the beginning of the first lockdown and hoped the messages were passed on and so the number I was sending to grew and have spread around the world. I continued to write and between this book and my previous book there has been a daily message every day for a year. What started so simply became global, messages of hope in these difficult times that have already helped so many, people have also found them amusing and wise. I humbly hope you can find something useful in them too.

After the last Ice Age Mesolithic Hunter Gatherers settled by a lake in a valley in what is now West wales. They discovered the Nature Spirit of the valley and over the years she watched over them and saw them develop. She watched their descendants through the Neolithic times as they built what is now termed a henge and slowly became a farming community. She watched them as they entered the Bronze Age and had to defend their land and spread out into the wider world. She watched as the Celts came with the Iron Age and became one people. Over time she made many friends and because they were mortal and she was not she mourned their passing. At times she came to close to people, perhaps she interfered a little too much. In human form she had feelings to contend with which she never truly came to terms with, almost becoming human herself because of misplaced love. Yet in the end she found contentment and as humanity began to drift away from belief in Nature Spirits she was prepared to fade away. This is a story of the development of humans through the different ages of pre-history, a story of a Nature Spirit caught between two worlds and how she found herself, a story of love and loss and conflict and peace. A story of magic that reminds us of what we need today, we need her kind.

The name Michaux often appears in the plant names of Florida, from the endangered yellow violets that grow wild in the panhandle to the Florida rosemary of the scrub. Andre Michaux (1746-1803) was an extraordinary and dynamic individual who explored North America during the eighteenth century, the first trained botanist to explore extensively the wilderness east of the Mississippi River, including Spanish East Florida. This first book-length account of Michaux's Florida exploration combines his original journal with writings about him by later authors, historical background, and the author's own narrative to create a multifaceted, comprehensive treatise on Michaux's travels and discoveries in Florida. Beginning with a biographical sketch on the life of Andre Michaux, royal botanist for King Louis XVI of France, the authors retrace (using 16 maps) the exploratory routes he took in Florida and recount historical events occurring in Florida at the time. They include in full documentary form all the plants he discovered, collected, and observed and fully assess his findings so that his contributions can now be evaluated along with those of better-known botanists of whom much has been written, such as John Bartram and his son William—who acknowledged the Frenchman's abilities, writing that Michaux could traverse the same ground that he and his father had covered and find plants that they had missed. From a historical as well as a botanical perspective, Andre Michaux in Florida re-creates the Florida exploration of a remarkable explorer and observer and allows us to experience vicariously the vibrancy and joy of his journey of discovery.