My Antonia and textured blanket progress

After one of my dear friends

and I were emailing, I got the suggestion

to read Willa Cather,

as my friend was recently reading her letters

to a great degree of enjoyment.

So I got My Antonia out from the library

and finally finished it,

after many renewals... 

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I loved it. 

Such a clarity of vision, a redemption and salvation

of Antonia, a narration of a boy who was humble

and later chivalrous and in the end 

a narrator who honours others...

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I loved the portrayal of the native Faith of 

'the Bohemians' and how the moral law

that God has built into the fabric of everything

is so evident into this work.

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And the cultured understanding of immigrants,

of music, beauty and books....

I could go on...

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Two people told me they found this book depressing;

I had a conversation with the library clerk and 

agreed with him that I could very well find this book

to not be depressing and truly I did not.

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I think if you follow the narration of the main character,

and his loves, then the whole book is a wonder.

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So the blanket.

It's going well!

I have all four colours in now...

I am getting much better at not ribbing when I mean to seed stitch and 

love that I am growing in my innate kinesthetic understanding of

reading my knitting,

which is one of the reasons for this blanket, 

along side of the making of the blanket itself. 

I am purposely doing mostly seed stitch with some ribbing

and am pleased with the results.

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