My Highland Heart-Hollywood Hamlet Failing Upward

From a wee bairn I was shaped & hewn by a family of heroic proportion, to a high measure of
 grit, panache, and ancestral fortitude to share, fusing their traits to my consciousness with 
gutsy, soul soothing tales of our forebears; luminous legends
 that grew across generations, firth of raconteurs and orators 
over generations. Those drizzly nights by cozy wood-fire warmth set
 the climate for this purposeful delivery to tot size 
ears, as Clan tradition from the beginning, branding me 
in the bold history of Fraser life in our wet Highlands of ancient Alba, "bonnie Scotland," pitting me 
in our living, breathing saga. I grew to read and imagine, to entertain, create laughter, written tales, songs. I lived in full spectrum of Arts turned to a career of artistic freedoms on theatre, music & film stages in composition, Film, Music & TV. My proudest work is that that my mother held high. Poetry, music, performance which my dear mother guided me to honor. My Highland Heart holds it all.