Non-fiction – Page 2 – Bardo travel: Writings on experience and place

On My Birthday

My birthday started as I wanted: up early with coffee, reading something new.

I was part of a pack of five, hurtling past purple heather on the slick wet road, smoky cloud clinging to the hillsides, when the epiphany came.

When my dad moved to one of the Scottish islands my first response was: are there waves?

Something strange drew me to the pavement of the city bypass one morning last September.