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Edge, Solitude, Simplicity, Beauty

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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...