Alba: Scotland

  Dànachd : verse (poetry) Sgrìobhaiche: scribe/correspondent, writer ... 1. ' Tha sin mar sin' "That's the way it goes, that's life", Gaelic-tradition: certainly runs rife! Family sayings and feelings surviving, But conversing in 'English' - is living? © Ewen A. Morrison ~ 'O, cuir an sgeul gu Mac-a-Bha is fag mar sin e!' (Oh, just leave it, forget about it, ok?) -------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Enigmatic I took the title with an enigmatic smile; Roma herself described me as such... agus * Bilingual rhyming: via my verses' file, Here's what's emerging and without fuss! © Ewen A. Morrison *(agus means: also, too/jointly) 3. Agus/Also This amateur to life's living, Gave what is to give, for-giving, Evolving's worth; while BEING, Surely, everyone including! © Ewen A. Morrison ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Ro math! Very good! in this second language; Schooled in this Beur

   "Colonialism is always a cooperative venture" (as Frantz Fanon reminds us) Frantz Fanon: existentialist philosopher I've never really felt that Scotland was London's colony, but have sarcastically said:" We could choose to behave as if we are London's colony or resume Scotland's independence!  "There's NO room for  expressing dry, mocking, humour while existing in today's political circumstances... If Scotland's electorate isn't free to question our elected representatives, then we might as well be living in a dictatorship?! I'm happy to have grown within a family that loved reading a wide range of books and being free to contemplate much of life's challenges without surrendering our openness and free will! I feel that this is an absolutely fantastic result of our upbringing - hopefully, like today's youngsters?  Keira is the youngest of our grandchildren and is already in love with the arts and in particular her Bale