Well, I did it. I finally came to the decision to move. As with my other blog, I have decided to switch over to Wordpress. I imported all the posts in this blog over to Wordpress, and will continue to write new posts there.
Here is the new site:
www.keeeeeene.wordpress.com
Bless and be blessed!
August 29, 2011
August 28, 2011
Smackerel for Thought
Alright... I know this may sound weird... but lately I've been reading the 'Winnie the Pooh' series. I am currently on the second book [of four], The House at Pooh Corner. Unlike most books - which I tend to devour within a couple or few hours of starting - I have been reading a chapter a day. I don't know what made me begin. I was putting something in our hallway walk-in closet and I noticed the set of books at the front edge of a shelf. I had never read them before, so I figured, 'Why not?!' I always liked watching Winnie the Pooh shows and sing-alongs as a girl. I particularly liked Eeyore, I must say. Poor guy. But wow... in the books, he's not merely down in the dumps - he's really quite rude, as well!
Mmm, tangent...
SO. I greatly enjoyed the first book, and am almost done with the second; I have two chapters left. It's been really great to read the scenes that I can so clearly remember watching in my younger years. The author, A. A. Milne, is actually quite brilliant. There are all sorts of things in the stories that honestly, only adults would 'get' as they read through. I love that kind of thing, not gonna lie.
So today, I was reading chapter eight of the second book: "Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing". Oh, little Piglet... who doesn't just love him? Too cute. Anyway, there were two passages that really struck me, though, that I would like to share:
' "Let's go and see everybody," said Pooh. "Because when you've been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody's house, and he says, 'Hallo, Pooh, you're just in time for a little smackerel of something,' and you are, then it's what I call a Friendly Day."
Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something.
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet." '
Hm. First of all, yes: 'Expotition' is correct. Secondly, think about it: Going because... well, just because. Isn't that grand? ' "... because it's Thursday." ' ! Imagine if we regularly did such a thing. Doing a kind thing... just because. Visiting someone... just because. Loving others... JUST BECAUSE.
... Okay, and because it's commanded of us by our Lord God.
The second passage:
' ... so they pushed on to Rabbit's as quickly as they could.
" We've come to wish you a Very Happy Thursday," said Pooh, when he had gone in and out once or twice just to make sure that he could get out again.
"Why, what's going to happen on Thursday?" asked Rabbit, and when Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was made up of Important Things, said, "Oh, I thought you'd really come about something," they sat down for a little... and by-and-by Pooh and Piglet went on again. The wind was behind them now, so they didn't have to shout.
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything." '
Previously in the books, there have been a few comments on how Pooh and Piglet only have 'Fluff', and no brain. But it was never mentioned in a way that leads to thinking of this as a belittling characteristic. It's simply how it is. But man oh man... that last line just about killed me! At first I let out a sound of disbelief, which turned into something more like exasperation... and then I simply laughed and laughed. Sometimes don't you feel that the more you know, the less something seems to matter... or the less you truly understand? I think that often we want to make things too complicated. Too complex. We always have to put meaning behind something. Why can't we settle for something that simply... is? Why can't we just let things be?
Mmm, tangent...
SO. I greatly enjoyed the first book, and am almost done with the second; I have two chapters left. It's been really great to read the scenes that I can so clearly remember watching in my younger years. The author, A. A. Milne, is actually quite brilliant. There are all sorts of things in the stories that honestly, only adults would 'get' as they read through. I love that kind of thing, not gonna lie.
So today, I was reading chapter eight of the second book: "Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing". Oh, little Piglet... who doesn't just love him? Too cute. Anyway, there were two passages that really struck me, though, that I would like to share:
' "Let's go and see everybody," said Pooh. "Because when you've been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody's house, and he says, 'Hallo, Pooh, you're just in time for a little smackerel of something,' and you are, then it's what I call a Friendly Day."
Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something.
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet." '
Hm. First of all, yes: 'Expotition' is correct. Secondly, think about it: Going because... well, just because. Isn't that grand? ' "... because it's Thursday." ' ! Imagine if we regularly did such a thing. Doing a kind thing... just because. Visiting someone... just because. Loving others... JUST BECAUSE.
... Okay, and because it's commanded of us by our Lord God.
The second passage:
' ... so they pushed on to Rabbit's as quickly as they could.
" We've come to wish you a Very Happy Thursday," said Pooh, when he had gone in and out once or twice just to make sure that he could get out again.
"Why, what's going to happen on Thursday?" asked Rabbit, and when Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was made up of Important Things, said, "Oh, I thought you'd really come about something," they sat down for a little... and by-and-by Pooh and Piglet went on again. The wind was behind them now, so they didn't have to shout.
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything." '
Previously in the books, there have been a few comments on how Pooh and Piglet only have 'Fluff', and no brain. But it was never mentioned in a way that leads to thinking of this as a belittling characteristic. It's simply how it is. But man oh man... that last line just about killed me! At first I let out a sound of disbelief, which turned into something more like exasperation... and then I simply laughed and laughed. Sometimes don't you feel that the more you know, the less something seems to matter... or the less you truly understand? I think that often we want to make things too complicated. Too complex. We always have to put meaning behind something. Why can't we settle for something that simply... is? Why can't we just let things be?
August 15, 2011
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