In April 2001 I took a seven month retreat at a Tibetan Buddhist hermitage located 30 miles west of Glasgow in the Clyde Estuary. Holy Island was approximately 2 miles long and 1/2 mile wide and had a 1000 ft rock in the middle. The community consisted of about 15 monks and nuns or recent renunciates who had given up their robes because they had fallen in love with a fellow community member. I was the only  long term guest on retreat. Whilst I was there I developed an irreverent sense of humor about my experience and my observations. I memorialized these musings in a series of emails which I sent to my  friends. For your enjoyment I have published them on the page in this blog called Holy Island.