My Scottish heritage is evident in my life. Ask my wife. I’m frugal (some people would say cheap), quick with a joke, jovial, imaginative, artistic and above all-proud of my heritage.
Author Lacklan Goudie and publisher Thames & Hudson explore and trace the impressive history of Scottish art dating back almost 5,000 years in The Story Of Scottish Art.
Inside this very comprehensive and fact-filled book, tinged with folk lore, is the story of how the Scottish people first put chisel to stone, brush to canvas, wove fabrics, crafted pottery, penned literature and crafted jewelry and other objects of art.
But, this book is more than a collection of photos of art. It contains the history of a proud and headstrong people whose contributions to art, architecture, engineering, worship and more has helped shaped not just Scotland but the entire world.
As I read each page and looked over each photos I couldn’t help but be proud of my Scottish blood-much of which had been spilled by my ancestors in the past during wars and conflicts.
This book makes me determined more than ever to visit my ancestral homeland and walk the same hills, valleys and land my ancestors tread so long ago.
I want to search out my kin that still live in Scotland and perhaps connect with them. It would be interested to see if they are as ‘frugal’ and stubborn as I am.
Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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