Evening Song - There Is A Way

Sew Happy Friday - A Really Scrappy Quilt Tutorial

This is a great way to use up scraps. Pre-cutting the pieces when you're working on other projects will also make it go faster. I also like her idea for exchanging scraps with friends. :-)

The Thousand Word Project - Spring Is Near or Here

O wind, where have you been,
That you blow so sweet?
Among the violets
Which blossom at your feet.

The honeysuckle waits
For Summer and for heat
But violets in the chilly Spring
Make the turf so sweet.

Christina Rossetti

"Rescuing" Disney

[Photo: SteamFan, WikiMedia Commons.]

Colossians 3:2

Set your affection on things above, 

not on things on the earth.

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This week there has been a big blow up over Disney including "inappropriate content" in a recent cartoon and in an upcoming movie. Frankly, this concern and protest is over 70 years too late.

Perhaps the first really disturbing cartoon that Disney produced was Fantasia, his third feature length animation. It included a lot of animation set to well known pieces of music and was perhaps most famous for the Mickey Mouse short of The Sorcerer's Apprentice which was included. But there were many other things in this cartoon - sorcery, magic (some of it being extremely powerful), nudity to various degrees (including full upper body nudity of "female centaurs"), mythical creatures from heathen religions, a nature "goddess", various "spirits" and devils, people apparently falling into hell, and more. And that isn't even mentioning some of the suggestively sexual incidents. Altogether it is a grotesques and very evil presentation.

Fantasia was released in 1940. You read that correctly - 1940.

Continue Reading.

Evening Song - Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

Galatians 6:14  But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Writing Challenge #3

Hooray! It is time for another writing challenge.

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Write a story from your family history. Strive to make it interesting while staying as close to the facts as possible.

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This can be anything you want - sad, happy, funny, heart-breaking, recent, long ago, etc. It did not have to happen to you personally. The choice is up to you. One way to stretch your abilities here would be to interview some family members about their memories of the event: how they felt, what they remember about it, etc.

My effort will be posted later this month. :-)  And here it is: Mom Prays in the Night.

Enjoy!

The Thousand Word Project - Delicate

Oxalis also called Wood Sorrel

To those who may be interested:

Stephanie at The Enchanting Rose is having sign up for the 10th Tea Cup and Mug Exchange this week. If you're interested, go take a look and see if you want to participate. I enjoyed the one I participated in last fall.