Alba: Scotland

Grimace? Used if something horrible, or grim has happened, expressing, saving words, breath, perhaps inking? Maybe seen among certain members of an electorate, at least south of Scotland's border, I'm thinking! © Ewen A. Morrison   I'm inflicted with some form of inbuilt 'reactionary-rhyming' obsession... ach well, so have some others I can think of too - you can add to that number, I suppose ~ who knows? 🌝    Anyway, my own history includes times when I've been inspired by both my actual work colleagues and the relevant incidents... perhaps this is an incurable condition? 😐 Potential?  'UK' faces bills: in the billions, we do hear, such chaos, much, much more than a tear! Theresa May, however, is implying that it is wiser than the rabbit from her hat? © Ewen A. Morrison  See what I mean? 😏

Alba: Scotland The above is the newly composed title for this Blog. The original title: 'Alba's Images' (Scotland's Images), was for what was becoming an Article-drafting style entity... for my own practice and assessingly developing my amateur typing abilities - proving to be quicker than my handwriting, these days(ish?). Most of us - if not all - are amateurs at the outset of any practice ~ so there's little shame to be concerned about; some of us are only gradually accepting the status of adulthood; in Scottish Gaelic: 's ann mar sin a tha ann - "that's how it is" ~ I hope you'll tolerate my mixing my languages here? When I say 'my languages', I'm truly entitled to write these words... my original language is really my 'mother tongue'. I had to learn a new language from my infancy, and I'm still in the process of evolving that particular education: a lifetime's study, (if not longer? ;) ... now, rather t

Alba's Artistic Arrays... 3 Stanza Page... Us We're a loving couple... we are two: She and he... are our you and me... Are not unique among many - no few! Eternally, perhaps, ultimately see? From young friendship, enduring now: Your mothering our two; and their's; Echoing parents, both then and now... Reflecting parents: their forebears!  Generationally improving: forthright, Honourable and very forward-thinking: Living happily, healthily and bright; Tomorrow's traces... likewise echoing? © Ewen A. Morrison 

Alba's Artistic Arrays...                                           Poetic Bio Born in Stornoway, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, evolving continuously thenceforth... and hopefully; who's to know if it's improving?  ~ nothing grand: for better or worse ~ eventually, everyone's to see! © Ewen A. Morrison I'm also hopeful that my inclusion of the above stanza and photograph will be acceptable? as I'm using it to demonstrate what may be possible. This verse is my own work, which is posted along with this photograph - both being my ©, so to speak 🌝 Perhaps a set of pages where each page is devoted to the number of verses used? ~ no harm in investigating/trying, eh? 😐 ~ we'll see... ........................................................................ Taigh/house Ewen John and parents, in Lewis they live upon; Hebrideans, of course, as Morrisons have done... As well as threading our world, among everyone: Nicknamed 'King'

                                            Knowing about the McCrone Report?  What have you learned about it? Generally, I'd only answer a qualified yes! If I'm asked to explain what I knew/know about that report, my limited response would tell how little that I really understood. Broadly speaking, I've interested in politics since my early teenage years and I would have been pleased to be able to vote as early as our present teenagers can do - we couldn't, of course. These are changed days, indeed! Most of my thinking and understandings emerged from access to a wonderfully wide range of reading experiences and sources... I was a child of 'a bookish family', and 'computers were science-fiction items.  (almost unimaginable to kids today!)  In this day and age, it may seem like an alien concept to youngsters:  my youngest years were spent in a home which lay outside areas of television reception - and we were richer than we realised, because of that.

Living/breathing We are more than the sum of our parts, living and breathing...beating hearts... eternal existence - more than mythical thoughts and fantasies, really factual! We inhale/exhale ~ evolution's charms, more'n bibles/preachers: mind's farms. Perhaps, we should respect the heart? 'Gut-feelings'- *smointeachdainn part!                             © Ewen A. Morrison (*Scottish Gaelic - "smointeachdainn": 'considering, thinking'.) My enjoyment in reading many blogs has continually added to my wonder and curiosity! Generally similar to my personal following of several visual arts (bar ballet! ;). These passions have been continually enriching, of course. That enrichment inevitably fosters and encourages the yen to practice, practice and practice... longing for improvement...an almost impossible objective - but a wonderfully enjoyable journey! Thanks for your time, Ewen

                                                                  Once upon a time... A certain person was briefly visiting our small garden shed - for reasons that will remain a mystery - when I tripped over my own feet, and not for the first time ever ! : " amaideach !" /amadʲəx/   ' foolish, ridiculous, silly'  ~  (as my mother tongue would put it) ~  Well, apart from flitting back and fore between languages, the story will continue... My first attempt at drawing the above image was purely for posting the drawing 'online', so that our granddaughter, Keira, could have a laugh at her  GP.  'GP' was first coined when Dylan, her big brother, was a young boy and our first grandchild... he used to call me 'Grampa'. Like all children, they're delightful, of course! However, some of us cannot resist 'winding them up' - I'm guilty as charged! so, I told Dylan: when we're talking in front of pretty young girls, just call me