""This album is a celebration of life and adventure," writes Hartley, the creator of Forest Light. "This collection of songs captures my musical landscape that I have experienced over the years. Ancestral Crossing marks a new point in my music and my life." Taken together, the first three songs on the disc make up a single suite which evokes the ancestral heritage each of us has hidden deep down in our souls, paying homage "to the Crossing so many made long ago.""