More musings about my father
Another email:
Hi Sweetie
By the time I heard your voice mail, it was too late to reach you. Well, your Dad is green with envy. Culloden Moor is on my Life List along with three other places in Scotland: playing the Old Course; walking the Golden Mile in Edinburough after seeing the Military Tattoo in the Castle; and making a pilgrimage to Castle Kilgour ( actually just a small keep - but none the less still our ancestrial home ).
I want to hear all about what you saw and felt as you walked across that Moor. I'm told the cairns (sp?) list the clans buried there and there is one which lists the "others" where our kin folk would be. If you took pictures and have a way of scanning them into your computer, I'd love to see.
My first paragraph brought a thought to mind? Do you and Paul have a Life List? Places you want to see sometime in your life? I think I probably started making my list as a child of 10 or 11 when I read a book by a writer named John Hunter. Most likely I'd squirm if I read that book now - but at the time, it made me long to see the places and animals he wrote about - East Africa mostly. The more books I read as I grew up and even thru adulthood, the more places that were tacked onto my Life List.
God forbid that I die now, but if I did, there are few places high on that list that I haven't seen. There is no question I have been lucky in my life, visiting those Life List places like: Kenya, with its abundance of animals that have always intrigued me; Athens, with the ancient wonders literally everywhere - and standing on the Acropolis; Egypt, being inside the great pyramid of Cheops and entering the tomb of King Tut; Istanbul, seeing Topkapi Palace and the Blue Mosque; Tokyo, because of the mystique of the Orient; Hawaii, for the tropical beauty; and Paris, simply because it is Paris.
Still to see is Venice and Rome, Scotland, the Winter Palace in St. Petersberg, the Great Wall in China, and the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. Fortunately, Nancy has a desire to see these places as well. Even if we don't see them all, I can count my life well lived.
So much for your Dad's philosophical musings.
I think I have one now.
Hi Sweetie
By the time I heard your voice mail, it was too late to reach you. Well, your Dad is green with envy. Culloden Moor is on my Life List along with three other places in Scotland: playing the Old Course; walking the Golden Mile in Edinburough after seeing the Military Tattoo in the Castle; and making a pilgrimage to Castle Kilgour ( actually just a small keep - but none the less still our ancestrial home ).
I want to hear all about what you saw and felt as you walked across that Moor. I'm told the cairns (sp?) list the clans buried there and there is one which lists the "others" where our kin folk would be. If you took pictures and have a way of scanning them into your computer, I'd love to see.
My first paragraph brought a thought to mind? Do you and Paul have a Life List? Places you want to see sometime in your life? I think I probably started making my list as a child of 10 or 11 when I read a book by a writer named John Hunter. Most likely I'd squirm if I read that book now - but at the time, it made me long to see the places and animals he wrote about - East Africa mostly. The more books I read as I grew up and even thru adulthood, the more places that were tacked onto my Life List.
God forbid that I die now, but if I did, there are few places high on that list that I haven't seen. There is no question I have been lucky in my life, visiting those Life List places like: Kenya, with its abundance of animals that have always intrigued me; Athens, with the ancient wonders literally everywhere - and standing on the Acropolis; Egypt, being inside the great pyramid of Cheops and entering the tomb of King Tut; Istanbul, seeing Topkapi Palace and the Blue Mosque; Tokyo, because of the mystique of the Orient; Hawaii, for the tropical beauty; and Paris, simply because it is Paris.
Still to see is Venice and Rome, Scotland, the Winter Palace in St. Petersberg, the Great Wall in China, and the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. Fortunately, Nancy has a desire to see these places as well. Even if we don't see them all, I can count my life well lived.
So much for your Dad's philosophical musings.
I think I have one now.