the belonging project

Tag: relationships

  • the parting glass

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    Tomorrow morning, early, I return to Canada. My Bonnie flies over the ocean, lol. Sabbatical, fin. This Belonging and Place project has felt like a pipe dream, even as it unfolded. Who gets to spend weeks crossing the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, spring and fall both? For work? And be welcomed in, repeatedly… wined,…

  • findings 2: Dùthchas – belonging as worldview

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    Dùthchas: Belonging as ‘Home’This past summer, preparing to delve into this sabbatical project, I read Scottish social histories and scoured my mother’s PEI Scots history bookshelf, trying to wrap my mind around the sociocultural and socioeconomic shifts that rang the knell for the old Gaelic order of the Highland clan system. I was trying to…