XVI. The Celtic Thread
The Scots-Gaelic language, the Highland tradition of survival through culture, and what conquered peoples can teach us about organizing power without becoming what you hate.
The Immortal Memory is the Burns Supper dispatch from a room two-thirds-full in Utah — the friends who left for Tunisia, their tartan cloak and Celtic knotwork bodhran laid out on the auction table, and the Loyal Toast quietly removed from the program because half the room can no longer drink it. Not protest, exactly. Just an omission nobody objected to.
The Hogmanay Trilogy - three pieces for the threshold of the year. Standing at the threshold. The distributed resistance. The first footer’s gift.
The Scottish Wisdom series gathers the habits a hard country hammered into its people — the optimism that plans, the complaint that diagnoses, the thrift that sorts, the judgement that tests, the romance that stays. Each piece takes something the world mistakes for temperament and turns it over until the working tool shows through.
The Path of Wisdom — Two coming-of-age novels in Scottish Gaelic, set in a single multiverse where the fair folk move between worlds. Both follow paths that are chosen, page by page, by the reader — because in a world of branching universes, every fork is real, and you walk only the one you pick. (These links are to essays about the books, not to the books themselves.)
