Beautiful Blue! A Homemade Life, Willa Cather and Finished Remains

I am happy show show that another square of my 

blued checkered blanket is done! 

I am just beginning the third square of section three! 

Rookie mistake: 

I began the section thinking the beginning was the top

of the next section, 

thus I would have the dark square on the top 

where it was on the bottom of the first section,

all to realize that by knitting that one first,

it would be on the bottom...

but no problem, I will simply bind off and switch it 

so it is that. :) 

I read a bit of Molly's Homemade Life

and started on the introduction to Cather's 

Song of the Lark

And I finished 

Remains of the Day

in the end it was not as suspenseful as the one 

section was showing it to be, 

and in the end I saw it as a man

narrating his 30 year career serving as a top crust English Butler 

who was seeking to be as good as his father, 

an English Butler before him,

and how he had to come to terms with the life - and death - of his

employer, Lord Darlington, who was well meaning

but used by the Nazis and in the end you see

Stevens not only come to terms with things which for him

was being able to name what had happened...

and he began to let himself be a human being instead of

a constant total always in character

of a perfect English Butler,

who served, was utterly unflappable and always at the height of 

what it means to have dignity. 

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So I have read two books that my beloved Mr. Husband read

in graduate school and he asked me which one I like more,

Remains of the Day or Saint Maybe

and well, they were so different, so I could not say

one or another though to me it is clear that the 

characters in Saint Maybe had a deeper turn 

and growth in their lives

because they saw that they were incomplete on their own 

and went looking for something greater to help them.

I think that this is the crux of many lives, if not all lives,

though not all, like Stevens the Butler, admit that they have

need of anything greater to personally help them.

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Well, as a Christian I have gained so much help

and I still see that my life can be a mess of confusion at times 

and a constant struggle;

Fr. Thomas Hopko's 55 Maxims shows that one 

must except struggle and temptation to one's last breath,

and I can say through experience, through observation, 

through reading, that I can't imagine 

not having that which is greater to help me;

and by this I mean the Holy Trinity whose 

Second Person Christ is willing and waiting to provide that 

greater help.

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Well, a more philosophical/theological yarn along post

but with me and my blog I find I never

know what will be next!

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I really appreciated the author of Remains of the Day

and how he shows a time period and culture in England that

was quickly passing away after WWII and his sad

yet beautiful book.

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It would be interesting to compare it to 

L'Engle's A Severed Wasp that is dealing with a culture

in the States that is also in many ways passing away

and what is found there in.

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So with all that...

what are you reading and creating? 

Yarn Along with us!