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Comment on Cautionary tales by erika

erika — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:16:59 +0000

Brilliant linking the two, Joanne. I found Struwwelpeter funny even when I was little because the rhymes are hilarious, but I confess to many mixed feelings about following the martyrs’ examples. I like your summary of the author’s message, but if I had a child, I’d rather tell her, “Be good, and continue to be good when it gets hard. But for goodness sake, when you see them coming to kill you, get out of the way!” There’s no cause for which one wants to make murderers, surely. And I think I’m still being faithful to the tradition, since that’s exactly what lots of Mennonites did, and how I came to be born in Tadjikistan.

Comment on Irritating art by kent monkman

kent monkman — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:03:33 +0000

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Comment on Irritating art by admin

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:28:15 +0000

Good point. I’ll work on that.

Comment on Irritating art by Nicksasa

Nicksasa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:31:31 +0000

I would appreciate more visual materials, to make your blog more attractive, but your writing style really compensates it. But there is always place for improvement

Comment on De gustibus non disputandum by admin

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:50:14 +0000

You mean about "Der Friedensfurst"? My mother has a book with the music in it, and I found a very little information about C.E. Leslie here, but otherwise it's pretty scant. I'd like to be able to find more.

Comment on Have you seen birds? by Ernestine Swapp

Ernestine Swapp — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:08:06 +0000

Heya i got to your site by mistake when i was searching bing for something off topic here but i do have say your site is really helpful, like the theme and the content on here…so thanks for me procrastinating from my previous task, lol

Comment on De gustibus non disputandum by Corine Vanwie

Corine Vanwie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:22:28 +0000

Wherever did you find the material? I tried to get some additional details about it, but I wasn’t able to.

Comment on Poems for fall by erika

erika — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:59:44 +0000

no leaves in this poem, but I think it has the sky you’re looking for:

Hurrahing in Harvest

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack cloud! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
And, eyes, heart, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
Rapturous love’s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
Majestic – as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! -
These things, these things were here and but the beholder
Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Comment on Irritating art by AndrewBoldman

AndrewBoldman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:45:38 +0000

Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.

Comment on De gustibus non disputandum by admin

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:50:18 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Sarah. “Friedensfürst” may well belong to an earlier era, but it did linger on into the ’80s, if not longer, in some circles. I’d never heard about its being popular among Paraguayan Mennos. That’s interesting.

Joanne