Can a place we’ve never been shape our fate? Can discovering it unravel, stitch by stitch, the life we’ve known?

This is where I stitch together the journey of remaking a life through art, travel, Morocco and finding a home

  • “Lost” in the desert

    “Lost” in the desert

    Written in the desert house, April 2026 I’ve lost days. I looked at the map, maybe it was in Italian, and now I’ve confused when is when. I’m losing needing to know. I am so outside of time. It is measured in wind bursts, sunsets, loved ones’ days off and their increased presence. I sat…

  • Loose Threads: pears

    Loose Threads: pears

    Eating pears every day here in my little house in the middle of the desert…so it becomes a taste of a time, of a chapter. Biting into a slice as I’m standing at the window watching the wind dance across the dunes. The flavor floods and coats my mouth with a subtle hint of grainy…

  • Inchallah Lessons

    Inchallah Lessons

    Inchallah is a word that seems to mean a hundred different things. Depending on the situation, who is saying it, your relationship to them, and the tone of voice…it can mean something completely different. If you ask directly, a Moroccan will tell you it means that if God wants something to happen, it will happen.…

  • Loose Threads: full moon

    Loose Threads: full moon

    I will remember this night for the rest of my life. Sitting on my patio. Full moon. Trees dancing in the breeze. Something unseen, crunching and munching in the bushes. Frogs serenading the river. The men playing drums and singing to the moon and the stars and the sky and each other on the dune.…

  • Wanting what I want

    Wanting what I want

    From July 2025 Every time you think you know something, it changes. Something shifts.  I don’t know what this is. I thought I did. A discovery of a home. A lost place. Found in Morocco. But I’m not sure it was ever about the place. I think the place was the trigger. The space that…

  • Self-imposed, accidental exile. Again.

    Self-imposed, accidental exile. Again.

    How do I keep doing this? Three years in a row is a thing, right? I was fine until I wasn’t.  Too many late-night drum circles, too much wine, and today I crash. When I was sixteen or so my dad said something to me that I still haven’t learned, and I remind myself of…

Follow Me On Social Media

@hiraeth.homecoming

Julie Scott

Artist and Writer