Claire Kettley

• Age: 28
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Scorpio
• Zodiac Year: Monkey

About Me

Claire Kettley, Scottish and proud of it. I belong to the Scottish nation in a way that’s different from the normal clichés. Without denying the folkloric aspects linked to beer, whisky, bagpipes and haunted castles, I find my Scottish identity through more traditional and introspective aspects. Scotland is a land rich in signs and symbols, and I try my best to draw inspiration from this, so that it really is a part of me.

Interests

• Everything and nothing.
• I don’t really see material things as very important.
• Every day I take on a new task
• and I go on pure instinct.
• I’m interested in what comes to me
• at any given time
• If nothing comes along
• for a while I have been passionate about a flower
• a peony for which I am its fragile evolution
• If not
• then only the most banal stuff :
• I like to read
• listen to music
• make cakes to have with the tea
• I love working outdoors with little gardening jobs
• in the open air
• I like to be in touch with the earth
• with the elements
• I like that « other thing » as well.

Favorite Music

• Purcell
• baroque music
• traditional and modern Celtic music
• vocal blues
• a capella singing
• various polyphonies (voices move me:
• Bobby Mc Ferrin
• Alfred Deller
• Buddy Guy
• Celtic choirs
• as well as
• Nina Simone)

Favorite Books

• Contemporary Scottish authors :
• A.P. Campbell “Before Raising the Anchor”
• Ron Butlin “The Sound of my Voice”
• Ian Crichton Smith for his detective novels and poetry
• especially "Tocasaid'Ain Tuirc" by Duncan Gillies in Gaelic
• In other genres:
• "Vita Nova" by Dante
• "The Zahir" by Paulo Coelho...

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