Learning from a Writer

Dr. Lauren Winner's
Writer's Workshop
tomorrow.

Two postponements
for now the third date.
Tomorrow.

Wonder if she will talk
about blogs?

Girl Meets God.

New at L'Abri

Great new things at the L'Abri
site including alot of Schaeffers
lectures free.

Take a look.
Excellent resource and source
to so many L'Abri workers and
the Schaeffers.

What are you reading Emma?

Question from my dear friend
to answer: what is Emma reading?
She just finished North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskill, She's reading
Cranford by the same author and
trying to finish The Days of Queen
Victoria. She's been to see Percy
Jackson and the Olympians:
The Lightning Thief twice
and it just came out. So the book
came off the shelf to see how it
was different than the movie. It
was but then I haven't read it or
seen it! Other books for school but
those are her heartbeat! I gave her
most of Masterpiece Theater's
recent productions in book form
and the movies for Christmas.

She loves the books better!
Way to go girl!

What are you currently reading?

Me:
Sir Walter Scott's The
Talisman and 66 Love Letters
by Larry Crabb......and little
bits of other books , but those
are the primary.

Here is Dr. Grant and what he
is reading! I've read Orthodoxy,
not The Origins of Species.
Plus The Chestnut King by N.D.
Wilson. I read 100 Cupboards.
Check out his blog.

Gratitude Monday

Valentines came in the mail!

Cute , cute top donned by Alex, next to Gordan.
His "Valentine" ........I just loved this dress~



Snow down by the creek on Saturday


Friday night's Narnia at the bottom of our front stairs.


Emma's snow heart



Valentine's Cake by Gordan's girlfriend Alex for us!
Delicious.

In all things, give thanks.

The Snow

As the Olympics start, we got
a taste of it with snow late yesterday.
The world is stunning this morning.
Fluffy snow. It looks like the Larsson
painting and this poem:

THE SNOW
Emily Dickinson

It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.

It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, --
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.

It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil

On stump and stack and stem, --
The summer's empty room,
Acres of seams where harvests were,
Recordless, but for them.

It ruffles wrists of posts,
As ankles of a queen, --
Then stills its artisans like ghosts,
Denying they have been.

Have you seen Masterpiece Theater's Austen Men or House

Emma and I are looking at the wonderful
new things on Masterpiece Theater.
Austen's Men is fun. We giggled at the
incomes and who is the most wealthy
and what they like and don't like. We
have our favorites and favorites of who
played in which version.

Also her house is most interesting.

We agree with Romola Garai's
take on Emma. Of course we like
Emma. My Emma is named for her!
I was taken with Austen's portrayal
of repentance in Emma's character.

Don't miss the Behind the Scenes of
this most recent version. One quote by
Mr. Weston: This era has a certain
grace. ( yes, indeed)