I take great comfort in looking and acting the way I do. It drives folk away.

People are very, very suprised to find that I am actually well spoken, educated, and a completely different person under this frightful shell. Many never learn this... They are driven away by the image I project. They judge a book by it's cover. And I don't want them around me. I cultivate my image to drive people away from me, it is my armor, my protection. The people that look past all of it to see me for what I really am as a person are the people I want around me.

Always keep people guessing.

And I do see my self as a "tribal" sort of person. I am clannish. I am all about loyalty and protecting women and children. I get penalised for this quite often, "sticking my nose where it don't belong" and "what gives you the right to go and bust somebody's chops for that" and all that.

The kilt, the culture, the history, and most importantly the ideals behind all of these things, these are what I identify with deep inside my spirit, my soul. I have values, concepts, and beliefs that are not well accepted in this day and age. I am a romantic. I am earthy. I like to let the mud squish between me toes and the rain to run down in to my beard.

The wearing of the kilt has been an awakening to me.