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🌊 Shetland Premiere: Ocean Symphony 🌊 A cinematic view of the Shetland coast at golden hour. ☁️ Shetland Skies: Time and Tide ☁️ Clouds rolling in over the Northern sea, a timeless ballet.

Fertile Solitude & Loneliness “All of humanity’s problems,” the French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654, “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Or for that matter, on Britain’s most remote inhabited island. Fertile solitude is the basic unit of a full and contented life. The line between solitude and loneliness can be thin, but there is a difference. Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorize. I have no such difficulty confessing solitude here on Fair Isle. What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. Fertile solitude, however, is learning to enjoy your own company. More than that, it is a developmental achievement, on the road to knowing thyself. The best things in life happen to you when you’re alone and despite the camaraderie and the spirit of cooperation, for...

Island Life: A Winter Story Weather has closed in and we are below limits both on route and at Fair Isle. This afternoon’s flight is now cancelled...but we are in the air! And Skyelark is in the hold. So the opportunity to fly out here during a heat wave (Down South In England), we expected no weather issues...maybe some wind, since Shetland is famous for wind speeds... But precisely because of the heat wave, the fogbank came in today, along with rain and some lightning while we were midair. Oh well, looks like we will be taking the Good Shepherd Ferry tomorrow. For those who have never experienced island life, the day-to-day realities of living in the middle of the north sea during winter can seem mysterious, and sometimes even a little intimidating. Yet, despit...

Into the Deep Freeze: Arctic Plunge in Shetland All of humanity’s problems,” the French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654, “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a COLD WATER IMMERSION ROCK POOL alone.” World Premiere

Auto Scroll Quote Slider with Images 🏝️ No man is an island but you can live on one of 500 in Scotland. Living on Fair Isle can awaken you from the slumber of almost living. It's a hard life here in many ways, and the only easy day was yesterday. 🌦️ It is mostly about the weather. Normally, we live in a sheltered, delicate world, and we believe we are living. Then we come here to the Sub Arctic and this counterfeit life is exposed, and the default way of doing things and being don't quite sync up. ❄️ We are exposed to the elements, the raw savage beauty Ah Yes—but it can kill you. There is danger everywhere, from the cliff edges that crumble to the gale force winds, and rain that comes uninvited but expected. Most of us spend our lives hibernating in cities, rural and urban. Can't do that here exactly in the same way. 😔 Boredom is a kind of anorexia of the soul—so wha...

Skyelark's Shetland Adventure Skyelark's Shetland Adventure A Scottish Terrier's Journey Through America and the UK Lucky Dog! Skyelark got to spend her first 5 months in America, and the next 7 in England and Scotland (Shetland). What a year for the Aberdeen Scottish Terrier! Skyelark exploring the beautiful Shetland landscapes Skyelark at 12 weeks - just beginning her adventures Skyelark's first adventure in the American countryside ...