Sam Harrison / To Knoydart via the Hebrides

My journey to Knoydart starts tomorrow.  I am running a sailing and walking trip, taking a wonderfully mixed group out into the joys and challenges of the Hebrides.  Our trusty ship, the Eda Frandsen, lives in Knoydart and knows it much better than me, fingers crossed she will fetch me up in Inverie in a weeks time.  Unwashed and calloused ready for the Natural Change project.  This trip always challenges my landlubbers idea that the sea is a barrier - actually it is a traditional highway - making ‘remote’ Knoydart accessible….

This is the ideal preparation for me - i get to settle into the rhythms of the sea and wind and rain and arrive in style.  Sailing offers a lot of space to think, and i hope to get my head around what might happen.  In the ebb and flow of my life, times of intense change have their own timetable, and its a while since i was part of such an exciting small group with the space and intention to go deep into our values and relationships with the world. Exciting!

Its nice not to be running these sorts of workshops (which is some of my usual work) and be part of the process…  Recently i have felt my inspiration batteries running low, trying to eek out a living through work in and with the wild environment, I hope i might recharge and reinspire myself.  Just this process of blogging is pushing me out of my usual networks and ways of communicating, so we will see where it leads…