Sea Change

Place writing from 2008

In excavating a few folders on my computer for early writing about place, I came across this piece that I wrote in 2008. At that time, I was living on my croft on the shores of Loch Broom, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland. Two years later, we’d have left and moved to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. This was a place I built myself, long be…