Tha mi ag iarraidh bruidhinn 's a Gàidhlig

How exactly YouTube works is, of course, a great mystery. Some video clips show up because they're closely related to other things I've watched. I went through a few days when various renditions of "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego" kept popping up, clearly because I had watched this:

(None of the subsequent versions could displace this one as my favorite.)

But it's suspicious that videos about Scottish Gaelic started showing up, given that all of my admittedly strange efforts to learn Gaelic had been taking place on another site entirely. But I did have a certain feeling of achievement when I saw the title of the video at the top and knew exactly what it meant!

Indeed, I do want to speak in Gaelic. I want to learn the language. I want to be in a place where they speak it.

Summer, maybe? It will be a while before they let Americans in without a ten-day quarantine.

In the meantime, I have plenty to keep me busy. It's Lent, so there's a Lenten study to deliver, starting Wednesday night. I have a paper due in about a week, two book contracts to work on fulfilling, a new house to furnish, classes to teach, and endlessly self-refreshing email inboxes to tame.

But still: Tha mi ag iarraidh bruidhinn 's a Gàidhlig.

When the fullness of time has come . . .