Croft & Compass
Life on Fair Isle
A Journey Through Scotland's Remote Beauty
🏝️ Island Life Awakening
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.
"Boredom is a kind of anorexia of the soul - so what is the remedy here. Part DOING and Part BEING but mostly being."
🎬 Featured: Island Reflections
Experience the raw beauty and solitude of Fair Isle life
📸 Island Moments
🧭 Finding True North
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 come uninvited but expected.
"You can also have the privilege of being yourself and doing what is heart felt as right and the true north for your inner GPS and intuition. Our solution these days is to pray, for our next best thing. To go where we can serve best."
🌊 Motion Creates Emotion
There is life saving power in movement - in simple walks, in breath. And yes, even the extreme cold water immersions I take to give these easy activities a bit of shock and awe. As I swim in the icy Arctic waters, I wash away all the extravagances of so-called civilization, which includes the incapacity to be happy under any circumstance.
📷 Visual Truth
Show rather than tell - So enamored with the technology and immediacy of YouTube, Instagram and FB. Ansel Adams, famous wilderness photographer said, "Paintings... well only photographs can tell the truth... It is indisputable."
"Beauty is truth and truth is beauty and when you capture the motion of the ocean or these clouds in a reflective pool, there is a kind of integrity that usurps words."