Comments on: Interview with Frank MacEowen: Moving Beyond Labels http://druidjournal.net/2008/03/08/interview-with-frank-maceowen-moving-beyond-labels/ Guidance and Inspiration from Nature and the Ancient World. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:14:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Guy Sloop http://druidjournal.net/2008/03/08/interview-with-frank-maceowen-moving-beyond-labels/comment-page-1/#comment-172281 Guy Sloop Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:17:39 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/2008/03/08/interview-with-frank-maceowen-moving-beyond-labels/#comment-172281 I have Frank's books and loved reading them all. Sloop is not my real surname, so I had a DNA test done on my male side and found out my ancient ancestors came from Wales. I alwasy thought we were Celtic on my dads side, I always enjoyed Celtic music, going to Highland Games, buying books on Celtic History and culture. When I listen to certain Celtic music, it brings tears to my eyes and I can fill the ancient Celtic ancestors tell me thankyou for rembering us. I fill them surround me with love and watching over me. I believe some of my ancient Welsh ancestors were Druids, I fill it in my heart and soul. I have Frank’s books and loved reading them all.

Sloop is not my real surname, so I had a DNA test done on my male side and found out my ancient ancestors came from Wales.
I alwasy thought we were Celtic on my dads side, I always enjoyed Celtic music, going to Highland Games, buying books on Celtic History and culture.
When I listen to certain Celtic music, it brings tears to my eyes and I can fill the ancient Celtic ancestors tell me thankyou for rembering us.
I fill them surround me with love and watching over me.
I believe some of my ancient Welsh ancestors were Druids, I fill it in my heart and soul.

]]> By: Kathryn Preston http://druidjournal.net/2008/03/08/interview-with-frank-maceowen-moving-beyond-labels/comment-page-1/#comment-172184 Kathryn Preston Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:17:58 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/2008/03/08/interview-with-frank-maceowen-moving-beyond-labels/#comment-172184 I just read the "The Mist Filled Path" during the current major crossroads in my life, and it is spurning me to Radical Change. This book is a reflection of my own soul. It is so illuminating to know that things I have been doing intuitively with no guidance, like Hillwalking, come from my family's heritage. As I lost my family as a child, thank you for sharing your wisdom. I am most grateful for the "guidance." Kathryn Preston I just read the “The Mist Filled Path” during the current major crossroads in my life, and it is spurning me to Radical Change. This book is a reflection of my own soul. It is so illuminating to know that things I have been doing intuitively with no guidance, like Hillwalking, come from my family’s heritage. As I lost my family as a child, thank you for sharing your wisdom. I am most grateful for the “guidance.”
Kathryn Preston

]]> By: Kate Gladstone http://druidjournal.net/2008/03/08/interview-with-frank-maceowen-moving-beyond-labels/comment-page-1/#comment-68746 Kate Gladstone Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:42:14 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/2008/03/08/interview-with-frank-maceowen-moving-beyond-labels/#comment-68746 Re: "the tendency of people when speaking about Native Americans is to talk about them in the past tense. " In many parts of the USA, people often speak only in the past tense about us Jewish people, too — "The Jews had a holiday called Chanukah" or whatever (often uttered with the same vocal intonations that one uses in telling the deeds of mythical/fairy-tale characters or other symbolic/fictional people). In my first year of college, two of my roommates spoke about Jewish observances/celebrations ONLY in the past tense (even when discussing things that they witnessed while speaking of those things), and they considered me "pedantic" and "cruel" and "unnatural" for even asking why anyone would speak of living people in a manner that English-speakers usually employ for speaking of long-dead people[s] or fairy-tale figures. They could never explain (or never cared to explain) why they did this, let alone explain why they considered it wrong of me to wonder why they did this. Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Re: “the tendency of people when speaking about Native Americans is to talk about them in the past tense. ”

In many parts of the USA, people often speak only in the past tense
about us Jewish people, too — “The Jews had a holiday called Chanukah” or whatever (often uttered with the same vocal intonations that one uses in telling the deeds of mythical/fairy-tale characters or other symbolic/fictional people). In my first year of college, two of my roommates spoke about Jewish observances/celebrations ONLY in the past tense (even when discussing things that they witnessed while speaking of those things), and they considered me “pedantic” and “cruel” and
“unnatural” for even asking why anyone would speak of living people in a manner that English-speakers usually employ for speaking of long-dead people[s] or fairy-tale figures. They could never explain (or never cared to explain) why they did this, let alone explain why they considered it wrong of me to wonder why they did this.

Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone

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