Today is the day that Scotland
votes to determine it's future - Independence, or continuance under the Crown of the United Kingdom...
votes to determine it's future - Independence, or continuance under the Crown of the United Kingdom...
Way back in 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was the first Independence for Scotland... it's historic, heroic, and heraldic... and, parts and pieces are still invoked today; in pubs, at soccer pitches and in the quest for self-determination.
Here's the salient line, almost 700 years later....
"...for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.
It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
Here's the salient line, almost 700 years later....
"...for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.
It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
Today, once again, the Scots vote for their own self-determination... I have no idea what the outcome will be, I have no real stake in the game. I do have a deep and abiding and endemic love for Alba, and the land as I experienced it. Yes, it's of my line, I am of Clan, and as a MacRae, I have fealty to the land.
let's see what they choose, and I will simply offer these glimpses into the land of my kin, and the way I saw and shared it...
give thanks and praise - agus is cóir sin! offered for your enjoyment, some snapshots of Hebrides.
let's see what they choose, and I will simply offer these glimpses into the land of my kin, and the way I saw and shared it...
give thanks and praise - agus is cóir sin! offered for your enjoyment, some snapshots of Hebrides.
