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
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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