quiet stories
Hello, I'm Hester
This page is a space not for the big life events, but for all those tiny moments in between. A space to ask questions, have doubts, to stop and wonder. These are stories from my life between the dots.
table of contents
- ......................................... quiet beauty
- ...................................... simple recipes
- ............................................ slow travel
- ....................................... sustainability
- ................................................... health
- ............................................... Theology
- ................................ on being a woman
- ............................................... marriage
- .............................................. thoughts
Once again, I’m trying to make it through the day on just three hours of sleep. Simply because I dared to set an alarm. One of the greater mysteries in my life is the trauma my body carries around having to wake up early. I won’t sleep until a few hours before my alarm is supposed to go off, I ...
The blanket of snow that has covered Aberdeenshire since the start of the year still continues to grow – the end not yet in sight. While I have experienced periods of being snowed in the years since we moved here, this is nothing like it. Life has come to a halt, and apart from the long walk we took on ...
As the snow swirls around our cottage, turning down the volume of the world by covering it in a thick blanket of marshmallow-like flakes, I sit down behind my desk, wrapped in a woollen shawl, surrounded by burning candles. I open my laptop for the first time in ten days. Being away from my computer and my phone to celebrate ...
My attempt at living a more sustainable life started in 2017 — although I had adopted some sustainable practices long before that. Not being satisfied with the amount of waste our household produced, we set ourselves a challenge in the following year to become a minimal waste household. Over the course of six months, we made some changes that significantly ...
