I am thinking about going back to see this beauty on the Scottish skyline. Its been a wee while since I was in Edinburgh - so much to do and so little time in which to do it - nevertheless a couple of days away is required so I can catch up with my dad. But its more than that, I stayed away from Scotland during the separation debate, not because I asn't interested but because I had no part in it and all I could do was observe. But now I want to breathe the air, take in the sky, hear the sounds of my own youth. Its a romantic idea, I know that, a place is a place, we might say, but I just have a 'wee nory' (as my mother used to say - or is it norie, where is your Scottish dictionary when you need it?). It means a 'wee fancy' or 'a wee notion'. Anyway I guess we all get them from time to time, a yearning to be somewhere else but not necessarily somewhere different, a return to the same. But what is the same? When Socrates was asked where he came from he didn't reply 'From Athens,' but from 'The World,' and I guess that's about right, but he must have yearned to go back home at some point. It was just a nory I had.
