my favorite drink on a hot summer day
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To Kill A Mockingbird, a book I was forced to read in 7th grade English, but didn't remember a single thing about because I was only 12 years old and not interested in the least...at 12 years old, I could barely make myself read this...why do they make 12 year olds read American classic literature??? I was way too young to even appreciate this story....I think you've gotta experience life a lot more than 12 years to be able to appreciate the social and cultural aspects in this story. It is not a difficult read at all, it's quite pleasurable...but not for a 12 year old. As an adult, I loved this story!! Especially now that I can look back on my childhood and laugh at the hilarious antics of Scout, Jem and Dill.....and now that I know what it's like to be a parent, I can appreciate the character of Atticus as well as Calpurnia...and now that I have been around racial and social issues, I have so much more sympathy and empathy for the characters in this book. There is no way I was going to get that kind of emotion and understanding when I was 12 years old. Especially thinking about the part in the story ~ the morning after Tom Robinson's trial, Atticus awoke to a table filled with food, all brought to his house by Tom Robinson's friends and family and Calpurnia was making chicken for breakfast!!! I just cried when I read that part...that was beautiful and so powerful. Ain't no way a 7th grader would experience those emotions after reading that. Anyhow, my point...if you read this in high school, and you are much older now, and you've been through the ringer a time or two, and you've experienced love and blessings as well as pain and loss and suffering, please give this book a second chance....don't just go by your feelings about it when you were forced to read it in middle school.
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And then, last but not least,
I've done a little quilting!
I had so much fun making this block!! I used fabrics from my stash. What I really wanted to do was go out and buy more fabric...but I've gotta stop that! Use what I have!!!!!! Anyhow, I'm going to make another one with reds and whites! I think that will be very pretty!! This square is going to be made into a kitchen table mat. Something to put in the middle of table for your salt and pepper and butter dish to sit on. I still have to make the binding and quilt it.
Well, there's my little tid bits of life these past few days.
What have you been up to??
