tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post4735067549894525999..comments2024-01-17T06:34:48.599+00:00Comments on The Far Queue: The Apple of William Tell's EyeGarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15637097897454660933noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post-7410223769963849272010-10-22T07:39:52.824+01:002010-10-22T07:39:52.824+01:00CoaTL: What a great heritage: all hail cultural di...CoaTL: What a great heritage: all hail cultural diversity! :)Garthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15637097897454660933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post-74895641588423969272010-10-22T01:59:31.270+01:002010-10-22T01:59:31.270+01:00Scottish, French, Scythian, Welsh, Irish, Cherokee...Scottish, French, Scythian, Welsh, Irish, Cherokee, Choctaw, Osage, Creek and Ashkenazi-Bohemian-Prussian. Whew....<br /><br />My mother’s lines are Cherokee-Welsh, Irish-Creek.<br />My Fathers are all the rest.<br />I was raised by four generations of Cherokee-Welsh Women. My great granny was the last woman born on a Cherokee Rez in the late 1800's. <br />My kinsmen have been with the Indians since the late 1500's, early 1600's. All were refugees of political strife and religious discrimination, taken in one at a time by American Indians.Confessions of a Temporal Lobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07363039533678460526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post-20333501806841920372010-10-17T11:52:08.324+01:002010-10-17T11:52:08.324+01:00CoaTL: by the way you spell auld I presumed you ar...CoaTL: by the way you spell auld I presumed you are of Scots descent but then you threw in Cherokee...<br />Scottish/Cherokee descent?<br /><br />Harlequin:This is another piece that resulted conversations with one of my sons (teenagers can make you dredge up the heaviest shit)Garthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15637097897454660933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post-89746396253678108892010-10-16T05:04:19.518+01:002010-10-16T05:04:19.518+01:00beautifully wrought; stanza three particularly spo...beautifully wrought; stanza three particularly spoke to me, and the sense of the whole as both hopeful and tentative. you convey this tension so well, here in this piece.Harlequinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964772119118368322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post-67004026860406992032010-10-15T22:00:50.660+01:002010-10-15T22:00:50.660+01:00My auld Granny used to say: "Never fear to sp...My auld Granny used to say: "Never fear to speak the truth you seek."<br /><br />Thanks for reminding me of my auld Cherokee Granny.Confessions of a Temporal Lobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07363039533678460526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post-34792079062200842472010-10-11T07:54:43.084+01:002010-10-11T07:54:43.084+01:00Yodood: we can always as deeper questions: all lea...Yodood: we can always as deeper questions: all learning is self-discovery ;)Garthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15637097897454660933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23064466.post-85761887003557496202010-10-10T20:41:20.368+01:002010-10-10T20:41:20.368+01:00We cannot ask questions deeper than we are, all le...We cannot ask questions deeper than we are, all learning is a reminding.Yodoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244765916380830711noreply@blogger.com