Achiltibuie

Here on this edge of Europe I stand on the edge of being.
Floating on light isle after isle takes wing.
Burning blue are the peaks, rock that is older than thought,
And the sea burns blue — or is it the air between? —
They merge, they take one another upon them.
I have fallen through time and found the enchanted world.
Where all is beginning.
The obstinate rocks
Are a fire of blue, a pulse of power, a beat
In energy, the sea dissolves
And I too melt, am timeless, a pulse of light.

― Nan Shepherd October 4th 1950
Wild Geese

These are my humours and my opinions; I offer them as what I believe, not what is to be believed.
I aim here only at revealing myself - who will perhaps be different tomorrow if I learn something new which changes me.
I have no authority to be believed, nor do I want it, feeling myself too ill-instructed to instruct others.
— Michel de Montaigne
Of the Institution and Education of Children

These two quotes reflect my wish for this website:
Nan has the gift of expressing 'deep-seeing'. I have often sat on her beloved Living Mountain learning to see as she saw and applying that to my own places.
Michel simply states what to me is obvious and perhaps best summed up in the phrase 'the more I learn the less I know'.

My site contains prose and poetry: moments I have imagined and recorded. Some have been modestly published, others have not. There is also something of my quirks and interests in these pages.

I have felt it almost impossible not to live a questioning life cultivated (though not exclusively) around the example of Jesus; I would describe myself these days as a companion to Christianity. Answers are less likely than paradox.
I prefer faith expressed in love rather than doctrine but I have reflected on my faith in a personal creed: it's changing as I grow older, I hope to modify it after some further reflection.

Blue Mountains: the Banner is derived from a photograph I took on a journey to Applecross. The view is looking across the Inner Sound to Raasay and Skye.