Comments for Serenity Now http://www.serenitybohon.com SerenityBohon.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:53:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on They Used To Be Taller I Think by Katie @ cakes, tea and dreams http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/they-used-to-be-taller-i-think.html/comment-page-1#comment-6141 Katie @ cakes, tea and dreams Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:53:40 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2411#comment-6141 My journals reflect my readings of the Anne books too. :) Which probably doesn't surprise you. I like this idea - that your life has "filled out" around the Anne books, which have helped shape and inspire you so much. Worth pondering for sure. All these books still absorb me the way they did when I was a child - but some things in them resonate differently with me now. I suppose it's part of growing up. My journals reflect my readings of the Anne books too. :) Which probably doesn’t surprise you.

I like this idea – that your life has “filled out” around the Anne books, which have helped shape and inspire you so much. Worth pondering for sure. All these books still absorb me the way they did when I was a child – but some things in them resonate differently with me now. I suppose it’s part of growing up.

]]> Comment on They Used To Be Taller I Think by Serenity http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/they-used-to-be-taller-i-think.html/comment-page-1#comment-6139 Serenity Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:11:28 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2411#comment-6139 That sounds amazing - I'm sure I would have been enraptured. My feelings about Montgomery's books have grown the more I learned about the author too. I wonder if I could do something like this... That sounds amazing – I’m sure I would have been enraptured. My feelings about Montgomery’s books have grown the more I learned about the author too. I wonder if I could do something like this…

]]> Comment on They Used To Be Taller I Think by Andrea T. http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/they-used-to-be-taller-i-think.html/comment-page-1#comment-6138 Andrea T. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:46:32 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2411#comment-6138 I know what you mean to get lost in a book. I love that experience. I'm not sure I've ever had any one book inspire me my whole life as Anne books have for you, but I think its wonderful that they have. I thought of you and your love of writing and acting when Den and I went to a performance over the weekend called "Discovering Austen-A One-Woman Show about Jane Austen" It was written and performed by a young woman working on her Master in Fine Arts. She played herself getting ready for a performance where she would play Jane Austen and she was trying to "get into character" for the performance. For ninety minutes she took us back and forth from the modern actor attempting to figure out who the real Jane Austen was based on her letters and books to transporting us back in time by quoting passages from several Austen works, embodying the characters of Emma, Fanny Price, Elizabeth and Mrs. and Mrs. Bennet perfectly. I could tell by her writing and her performance that Jane Austen's writings are and have been to her what L.M. Montgomery and the Anne books have been for you. By the end she realized she didn't have to figure out Jane Austen completely to be able to represent her well. Because what Jane was doing in her writings was not just to make fun of society, or just to make money or so many of the other other reasons historians have written were her motives in writing. Maybe it was just that she enjoyed writing, she loved being creative, her stories were her babies that she nurtured until they were ready to send out into the world. And that the actress was able to do as well, embrace her own creativity and release it for the world. At least that's the idea I came away from the performance with and I thought of you and how much you would have enjoyed the performance and her ideas about writing and living. I know what you mean to get lost in a book. I love that experience. I’m not sure I’ve ever had any one book inspire me my whole life as Anne books have for you, but I think its wonderful that they have. I thought of you and your love of writing and acting when Den and I went to a performance over the weekend called “Discovering Austen-A One-Woman Show about Jane Austen” It was written and performed by a young woman working on her Master in Fine Arts. She played herself getting ready for a performance where she would play Jane Austen and she was trying to “get into character” for the performance. For ninety minutes she took us back and forth from the modern actor attempting to figure out who the real Jane Austen was based on her letters and books to transporting us back in time by quoting passages from several Austen works, embodying the characters of Emma, Fanny Price, Elizabeth and Mrs. and Mrs. Bennet perfectly. I could tell by her writing and her performance that Jane Austen’s writings are and have been to her what L.M. Montgomery and the Anne books have been for you. By the end she realized she didn’t have to figure out Jane Austen completely to be able to represent her well. Because what Jane was doing in her writings was not just to make fun of society, or just to make money or so many of the other other reasons historians have written were her motives in writing. Maybe it was just that she enjoyed writing, she loved being creative, her stories were her babies that she nurtured until they were ready to send out into the world. And that the actress was able to do as well, embrace her own creativity and release it for the world. At least that’s the idea I came away from the performance with and I thought of you and how much you would have enjoyed the performance and her ideas about writing and living.

]]> Comment on They Used To Be Taller I Think by Serenity http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/they-used-to-be-taller-i-think.html/comment-page-1#comment-6137 Serenity Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:31 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2411#comment-6137 Well it certainly wouldn't say anything negative about you. In my memory, you're the reason I moved onto the other books in the series. I remember you reading bits of it out loud to me actually. And didn't you used to have the end of this book memorized? Or maybe just this scene in the movie, "I've come to ask you for one of our old-time rambles..." Well it certainly wouldn’t say anything negative about you. In my memory, you’re the reason I moved onto the other books in the series. I remember you reading bits of it out loud to me actually. And didn’t you used to have the end of this book memorized? Or maybe just this scene in the movie, “I’ve come to ask you for one of our old-time rambles…”

]]> Comment on They Used To Be Taller I Think by Felicity http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/they-used-to-be-taller-i-think.html/comment-page-1#comment-6136 Felicity Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:28:44 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2411#comment-6136 Oh, lovely. And I'm pretty sure the one you're reading is the ONLY Anne book I have ever fully read myself. I think this says something about me but I'm not willing to analyze it on a Monday morning so let's move on! : ) Oh, lovely. And I’m pretty sure the one you’re reading is the ONLY Anne book I have ever fully read myself. I think this says something about me but I’m not willing to analyze it on a Monday morning so let’s move on! : )

]]> Comment on My One Word by Jenny http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/my-one-word.html/comment-page-1#comment-6135 Jenny Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:31:18 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2385#comment-6135 I like the idea of a one word anthem for the year. This sparked a discussion here in Denmark about individual year-words and I just wanted to to send a thanks for that. FYI- the Danish word for honesty is ærlighed (air-lee-hill) which may be useful for your travelling self to know. :) I like the idea of a one word anthem for the year. This sparked a discussion here in Denmark about individual year-words and I just wanted to to send a thanks for that. FYI- the Danish word for honesty is ærlighed (air-lee-hill) which may be useful for your travelling self to know. :)

]]> Comment on Touching Silence by shelli http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/touching-silence.html/comment-page-1#comment-6131 shelli Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:59:38 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2400#comment-6131 wow you certainly have a beautiful ways with words :) wow you certainly have a beautiful ways with words :)

]]> Comment on Touching Silence by Valinda http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/touching-silence.html/comment-page-1#comment-6128 Valinda Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:44:08 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2400#comment-6128 Serenity, This is perhaps one of my favorite of your blog posts!! I love what you wrote and how I could envision you sitting in the parent pick-up line enjoying your moments of peace and silence. I love those moments when I get them, even though few and far between. Thank you for your words and your amazing talents! Love you my dear friend. Valinda Serenity,
This is perhaps one of my favorite of your blog posts!! I love what you wrote and how I could envision you sitting in the parent pick-up line enjoying your moments of peace and silence. I love those moments when I get them, even though few and far between.
Thank you for your words and your amazing talents! Love you my dear friend.
Valinda

]]> Comment on Touching Silence by DAD http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/touching-silence.html/comment-page-1#comment-6127 DAD Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:21:56 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2400#comment-6127 There is a sense in which we were made for here, Remember He looked on it(creation) and said it was good. There will be a new heaven and a new earth and we will be in resurrected bodies so somehow part of us has a place here eventually. How that works out I don't have a clue but I do know He knows and has plans for our good and not for evil. Redemption is the name of the game remember. There is a sense in which we were made for here, Remember He looked on it(creation) and said it was good. There will be a new heaven and a new earth and we will be in resurrected bodies so somehow part of us has a place here eventually. How that works out I don’t have a clue but I do know He knows and has plans for our good and not for evil. Redemption is the name of the game remember.

]]> Comment on The Take-Away by DAD http://www.serenitybohon.com/2012/01/the-take-away.html/comment-page-1#comment-6126 DAD Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:09:22 +0000 http://www.serenitybohon.com/?p=2394#comment-6126 Bob Stricker used to say about the ministry, "If can quit, you better. If you can't, then do the best you can and see how it works out." I think that applies to many of our vocations or avocations, we keep at them because something drives us. Most of the time we aren't consciously thinking of what that is ,but maybe we should take time and do that more often. It might fuel our desires creative juices or whatever. Bob Stricker used to say about the ministry, “If can quit, you better. If you can’t, then do the best you can and see how it works out.” I think that applies to many of our vocations or avocations, we keep at them because something drives us. Most of the time we aren’t consciously thinking of what that is ,but maybe we should take time and do that more often. It might fuel our desires creative juices or whatever.

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