My name is George. Seoras, if you speak Gaelic. Born in the United States, German on my father’s side, a native of Bamberg, and a Stewart on my mother’s side from a wee parish outside Stirling. I am a keen learner, eager to travel the world around me, and an instructor of English with years of experience teaching in the US, Turkey, and Japan. In audiobook narration, I have discovered a perfect opportunity to perform and play with languages, dialects, characters, cultures. Essentially, my voice is my livelihood, and my spirit longs to explore.
















I’m glad to know that you are on a journey of truth. a wonderful soul you are and the short bio itself, sends positive vibes around here.
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You are so kind. Really, your words touch me and teach me something very gracious about you as well.
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well then we are mere reflections. 🙂
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good to see this
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Thank you George for stopping in and liking my post on Glorified Poison. I like your Bio…as a wife of an immigrant, married to him for longer than we were both single, I watched him grow and do see a bit of the ‘search for what’s beneath’ in him. Best of luck, a very nice site you have here.
R
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My pleasure, Rhonda. And thank you for sharing with us the valuable information that you have. People do need to know about all of this.
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You are welcome. The more we share with each other, the better! This is such a great forum and a great community.
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Strangely enough, I too have a borrowed name. When my folks split up at thirteen, I believed my first name (Zane) came from Zane Grey, the western writer. about thirteen years later, after reconnecting, I said something about it. He told me that wasn’t why. He said there was an oilman in Ohio or Pennsylvania who bore that name,; and his business partners all met mysterious ends. I did some looking, and it seems the story was misremembered.
I was named after an imaginary criminal. 🙂
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Perhaps not the most auspicious naming, Zane, but it makes for a helluva story. And I am sure you bear the name well. Certainly better than the imaginary criminal.
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I actually like this origin for my naming over the one I assumed for years. It is sort of liberating as I get to define myself; and, if you read much of my blog, you’ll see that I do bear the original intent well.
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Hi George:), just wanted to say thank you for stopping by my blog with your “Likes” and “Following”, I can assure you that it`s very much appreciated and inspiring! I look forward to continue following your blog as well, I have enjoyed what I found here so far! Have a marvellous day:)
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My pleasure, Vibeke. I quite enjoy your photography and look forward to viewing more. My best to you.
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Hi George! I am just saying thank you for the great comments on my blog, and (although I am pretty sure you avoid the awards thing as much as possible), I have nominated you for the Reader Appreciation Award…you don’t have to do anything with it but look at the pretty flower–it is a virtual bouquet of appreciation for your support, if you will 🙂
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Susan, you are — and have been since we connected here — so very kind to me. I value indeed your appreciation, as I value your own verses, that you so generously share with us. Thank you very much.
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My pleasure, George 🙂
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So very grateful to have found your site! Your poetry is beautiful and will certainly be appreciated on my own search for peace! Much light and love to you in the new year!
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Thank you so much for your kind words. May peace and blessings indeed be yours in this new year to come.
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Hi George. I am intrigued with what you have to say here. Your last post says SLC at the bottom. Is that where you are?
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Indeed, Maggie, I am currently in SLC, although I long to be elsewhere. No offence intended to all my neighbors here. I just know that I am not supposed to be here. I am waiting. And hoping.
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I am miles and miles away from SLC, same state though. I know that feeling well though. Good luck to you!
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And to you, Maggie. Stay warm.
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Thank you so much for being on my blog and I loved being here going through your wonderful thoughts. Great to come across you!
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Thank you, Soumyav. The feeling is mutual.
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Hello Poet….Thanks so much for your visit and follow….. 🙂 🙂
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My pleasure, Mirna. Your writing is very compelling. Thank you for sharing it with us. -George
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George! here you are….so happy to meet up again!
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It is my great pleasure to return to your writing, Jana, and to your thoughts, images, explorations. I am sorry to have been gone so long, but so very glad that you are still here.
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Hi, thank you for the follow and likes on my blog, good to meet you, Vonita 🙂
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My pleasure, Vonita. I very much enjoy your writing. My best to you.
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Many thanks for the visit and follow. Much to learn about the world eh?
-Peep
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Much indeed, Peep. It’s what makes this life so exciting. My best to you and your Sir.
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What beautiful pictures of you and your bride. I had to comment – you both are beaming and I just love the kilt.
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Cheers, Jayne. Much appreciated. Family tartan that.
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Hi George, thanks for liking my post “Gossamer Wings”. I read your poem ‘Prayerful Stones” and really loved it. Look forward to catching up with more of your writing.
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Likewise, Teri. I am quite enjoying your verses. And looking forward to more.
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“Life expands through Learning and Discovery. Occasionally I feel compelled to share these experiences–or at least my Expression of them–through Writing or Verse.”
Well said! I feel the same way — compelled! 🙂
I like that you shared some things about your heritage. It’s amazing how your blog is identified with the feminine side of your background, Gaelic Dreams, like you named your feminine aspect of the mind (the unconscious/subconscious). It’s powerful also because that literally is your maternal side as well.
I have to say you and your wife look so in love, it’s warm to see. Congratulations.
Peace & Love from my part of the world to yours.
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So very kind of you to say, Lila. Thank you for all of this. Before my mother passed away, she was a dear friend to me, a kind, loving mother who committed herself to providing the safest home and sweetest life for her family, but, growing up in the US, she never had a chance to explore Scotland for herself. I wish she could have. Her Gaelic spirit would have been enthralled by all of its beauty.
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You’re most welcome! She sounds wonderful, and it’s heartwarming to hear of a good bond between mother and child, always. 🙂 Sweet that you had a dear friend in her. I hear lots of great things about Scotland. I only seen it in pictures, you’re both lucky! 🙂
I just realized how funny it is that I’m in Nova Scotia “New Scotland.” Hah. I do love it here ^.^ feel lucky too.
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Thanks for the follow. I’m returning the favor. This looks fun!
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My mother was a Stewart as well. 🙂
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Oh, there are quite a few of us out there, aren’t there? A very large clan–international even–without a chief. Have you traced your mother’s family back? That’s a fun challenge, I find.
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I have been using Ancestry.com to try to trace my family lineage but I am not getting very far at all on the Stewart side.
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For all we know, you and I might be very distant cousins. Many Stewarts, including my mother’s family, first entered the U.S. through Virginia. Last time I was there, visiting family in Culpeper, I was thrilled to see a sign for Kilmarnock. Must be a fair few Scottish place names in and around Virginia. I’ve been using Ancestry.com as well, and found enough documents to take me back to the 1600s, but further than that, I’ve had to depend on other sites and private family trees. If you’d like to take a look at my tree on Ancestry, here is a link: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/pt/RSVP.aspx?dat=Mzc5NTU1MDI7OzAwNmU5MDcyLTAwMDYtMDAwMC0wMDAwLTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDsyMDE5MTEyNDA3NDM0NTszMjc2OQ==&mac=iDjib+q2W+cblBwaZ/lJpA==
Cousins or not, always a pleasure to meet a fellow Stewart.
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Ha, you never know! Thanks for the link. I’ll have to check that out!
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Fàilte, tha mi às a ’Ghearmailt agus tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig. 🙂
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Halò, Timo. Tha mi cuideachd ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig. Tha e gu math duilich. Mein Deutsch ist etwas besser, aber wirklich nicht so gut. Aber was solls? Ich versuch’s. Pleasure meeting you, Timo.
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Math a bhith a’ coinneachadh riut.
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seoras interesting, my father’s name is george. he is palestinian and George is Jerrius in arabic. my mom is mostly irish and a bit of german, hirschbuhl is her maiden name.
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Nice. Always interesting for me to see names pronounced in different cultures. I had no idea early in life that the name George even existed in so many cultures. My mother is a Stewart, one of the great old clans of Scotland (although largely of Norman/French heritage, like many Scots are outside of the Highlands). If my father had stayed in Germany, I would have been Georg Waltrapp. These disparate journeys that take us and our ancestors around the world astonish me.
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Yes I know! Fascinating indeed! I too had no idea how many cultures have my sons name Adrian .
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Hi George,
I just wanted to thank you for “liking” my poem “A Litany of Delusions” on the Pen to Paper blog.
https://lunatheblog.com/2021/04/03/a-litany-of-delusions/
Were there any delusions that you could relate to in particular?
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Nice meeting you George,
Johncoyote is the one that gave me your gaelic link, and thankfull he did since your written word is great. Hope with more time to read more of your blog.
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Thank you so much, Carlos. Yes, John, is an amazing writer. There is such a compelling authenticity to his writing.
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