Karens Notes, Sketchnotes

The art of asking questions

Posted on March 27, 2021October 20, 2022 by Karen Reyburn

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Jun 15

When you’re hiking in one of your fave places and come round the corner just as the train does… #glenfinnan #hogwartsexpress🚂 #steamtrain #scotland #highlands

Jun 15

I love rain.

I mean I really, really enjoy it. I love the pattering sounds, the cooler air, the mist and clouds. I look out and see a misty day and am very, very happy.

I’ll often leave my hood off when walking because the fresh water feels so good on my face. (Even more so when it’s a fine mist that comes and goes.)

I love the way it fills up the rivers and the waterfalls. How I can hear the water falling and rushing and splashing and laughing.

I love how it makes everything so green: and often on a wet day, brings out the colours so brightly.

And when we had nearly five weeks of pure sunshine, I was struggling.

I felt like about the only one: everywhere I went people were excited and happy and praising the sun. “Don’t you wish it could be like this every day?”

Nope, no, definitely not. Thing is, there are places where it’s like that most days. Scotland - and particularly a western island - is not one of those places.

And I love it. I’m in the right place for the rain of all kinds - pounding rain and misty droplets and rain with wind and every rare once in a while, thunderstorms. And the water, everywhere.

I’m kind of obsessed with water. When I leave the island and am in a city for a few days I start to get really antsy if it’s too dry or too many buildings. The moment I’m near water - rivers, waterfalls, lochs, the sea - I can literally feel my shoulders drop and I start to relax.

I also love the variety, the changeability. I was on a long drive today and it was mostly mist: but also bright pockets of sun, and shafts of light breaking through the clouds, and bright greens lit up by a golden glow. And a pink and purple sky at the end.

I’m glad so many people got to enjoy so much sunshine, and found themselves so happy. I really am. I enjoyed a lot of it, as well!

..and then as the weeks went on I found myself getting grumpier and grumpier…and the utter relief when the rain returned was great indeed.

At least I know I live in the right place. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨☔️💧🌧️

Jun 14

Got myself a little lost the other night and rattled over some dirt roads for a while… followed the sun and ended up in a place I knew …

I wandered there too, rambled over the fields and to the cliffs, meandered my way in a new direction and found myself standing at the edge of my world.

So naturally I jumped in. Me, the strawberry moon, the dark sea like silk, the gentle wind, the lift and fall of the waves. I felt supported, held.

It’s good to get a little lost now and then.

#islandlife #seaswimming #sunset #strawberrymoon

May 28

I absolutely love living near water, every day.

Sea water, beaches, waterfalls, rivers, little trickles, droplets, pounding rainstorms, still lochs, sea lochs, bays, marshes, mist, fog…

There’s something about the water which relaxes me. Helps drop my shoulders when i realise I’ve been holding them up too long. Holding myself up too long.

I’m always in my happy place on the island….but this past week when all the forms of water returned and filled up , I feel filled up too.

#isleofmull #raining #water #seawater #rest #letitrain

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