June 4, 2019
I ponder, or might I say reflect, I am always in search of the better word, I digress! Considering my southern upbringing, I might use the phrase “stewed upon it at length.” I am of a mind to use “chewed on it” or whimsically ruminate the subject, imagine a cow chewing its cud. In short, it is all about contemplating this world and worlds past. An ancient ancestor, not belonging to a named place, other than what the archaeological historians now ascribe or give credence to a race or culture that once lived there, in that said same place.
This ancestor lived in a place we now call the Orkney Isles, located north of Scotland. The name we have designated to the place is called Skara Brae and Ness of Brodgar and the name we have named these people, The Orcadians.
The Orcadian, A man aloof and alone within himself. Stubborn though obstinate, resolute though determined, burdened dissolubly with the masculine task of survival and provider. Of...
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