My clan heritage was passed on by my grandfather Murdoch when I was a boy and again as a young man. Hard not to have my blood stir at things Scottish.

Yet I am also 1/32nd Irish and there are Welsh lines and English lines in my blood too.

Today, I'm at work kilted with a green Northern Arizona Irish Foundation t shirt and tan UK survival with Arizona State flag patches on the pocket...and green soccer sock pushed down with brown tennies. Honoring the Irish blood today.

My clan came from Uig and later Staffin at the north end of the Trotternish peninsula of Skye...a land also trampled by the Norse and most other invaders of the island. Hard to put a name on what to call my more ancient ancestors. Try to honor them all....even the Palantine Germans that married into my mother's Loyalist lines after the American Revolution.

Ron