Your post truly touched my heart, as I can identify with just how you feel. I am from New Orleans La. USA. My father was the only family that I knew on his side and often spoke of Scotland where his family was from. He was a magnificent story teller and would talk on and on for hours about his homeland , that I often felt I was there. He would get this far away look in his eyes, that said his heart was there. I feel he passed that love for where your roots are down to me, for I have those feelings also for my beloved New Orleans as much. or even more than I do for Scotland as well as lreland. I know more than likely, I will never go home due to the critical amount of crime there now, but my heart is often there- still listening to all the familar sounds of the River boats and the Cathedral bells around Jackson Square. You see when my father fell in llove with my mother, he also fell in love with another queen- in fact the queen of queens, my city of New Orleans.
Blessings n thank you for sharing your love of Scotland, I too long to one day see the place my father loved.
Aware3