tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982896.post115654754318392574..comments2024-01-27T06:18:24.648-08:00Comments on A Merry Rose: Mimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13429722263321739095noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982896.post-1157040585717217372006-08-31T09:09:00.000-07:002006-08-31T09:09:00.000-07:00Hello, PLain and Simple,I am so glad that your com...Hello, PLain and Simple,<BR/><BR/>I am so glad that your comment came through! As a fellow Queen of Nostalgia, I totally agree with you.<BR/><BR/>I am wired to love things from the past, and would be even if there was no cultural struggle over the role of keeper at home. Since my culture does continually assault the choice I've made to be keeper at home, I naturally look to a "more homekeeper friendly past" for inspiration and education. There's nothing wrong with that. The past has a great deal to teach us. <BR/><BR/>However, I so have to balance this with this Ecclesiastes 7:10 -- "Do not say, 'Why were the old days better than these?' For it is not wise to ask such questions."<BR/><BR/>Since Eve ate the forbidden fruit and sin entered the world, things have been off-kilter. As a result, women from every era have longed for more graciousness, more wholesomeness, more loveliness, more romance. But, these longings are a symptom of a deeper need to know God. The only unfallible place to rest our searching hearts is in Christ. And, he is the same yesterday, today, and tomrorow -- so he's just as avialable to us today as he was to the women of the past. <BR/><BR/>So, the question is: How do we live our lives in a way that makes godliness attractive in our current culture, without compromising our convictions? I don't have all of the answers here. That's something I have to keep searching out with God.<BR/><BR/>ElizabethMimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13429722263321739095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982896.post-1157011347715624842006-08-31T01:02:00.000-07:002006-08-31T01:02:00.000-07:00Hi ElizabethI wish I could help you with your tech...Hi Elizabeth<BR/>I wish I could help you with your technical problems but I am completely useless at that kind of thing!<BR/><BR/>My original comment was entirely in support of your article. The link between a love of the past and what can be loosely called the "keeper of the home" movement is a strong one. However, I think you're completey right. I know from my family that home life was not all that rosy in the 1950s, the Victorian times or the 1930s. I've researched my family history and older relatives have been frank with me about their lives and (without going into too much detail)life for those women was hard. I also think that the 1960s taught us a lot about equality and loving our fellow man, also the hippies had a lot of good stuff to say about living simply and respecting the Earth. I think if the movement is to go forward (and I think it is becoming a movement) then we need to look to the future. We can take the good points from previous eras; manners, strong family structure, respect for our elders; but we also need to acknowledge that they made terrible mistakes too. Nostalgia is a lovely thing (I'm a truly nostalgic person)but we need to balance a love of the past with and eye on the future. <BR/><BR/>I loved this article - that's why I contacted you again - at heart I'm just a bossy boots!Isabella in the 21st Centuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01477890093845193073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982896.post-1156956364756397772006-08-30T09:46:00.000-07:002006-08-30T09:46:00.000-07:00Hi Plain and simple,I'm so sorry, but I never saw ...Hi Plain and simple,<BR/><BR/>I'm so sorry, but I never saw your original comment. Don't ever worry about any comment of yours being too "in my face" or about getting over-excited when you write. <BR/><BR/>As long as someone is neither obscene or thoughtlessly cruel -- neither of which I can imagine your ever being -- I welcome all comments. Sometimes, a stirring dialog helps me sort out my own thoughts. <BR/><BR/>I wondered if I communicated well in this post, anyway. I would love to hear another person's point of view.<BR/><BR/>I think I figured out what happened to your comment. Someone left a blog title in the comments section of this article, but they did not leave any comment along with the blog title. Maybe, they were having trouble getting a comment through to my blog, too. If so, I hope they will comment again.<BR/><BR/>But, I got funny little feeling when I saw a title and no comment. I wondered if someone could leave a link on my site, without caring about the blog or its readers. I wasn't sure if there could be anything harmful about this or not. <BR/> <BR/>So, I went into my template and checked the option of reviewing all comments before they are published. Thirty minutes or so later, I decided I was being overly cautious. I want readers to be able to comment freely. So, I went back and unchecked that option.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, if you posted during the time the option was checked, your comment may be somewhere waiting for me to review it and I just don't know how to get to it.<BR/><BR/>As an experienced blogger, you may be able to give me some advice about what to do with blog titles with no accompanying comment. <BR/><BR/>If you don't mind sending your comments again, please do. <BR/><BR/>ElizabethMimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13429722263321739095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982896.post-1156945348648443832006-08-30T06:42:00.000-07:002006-08-30T06:42:00.000-07:00Hi ElizabethI commented on this post a little whil...Hi Elizabeth<BR/>I commented on this post a little while ago, but it wasn't published. I could have been my PC playing up and if it was forgive me *or* you may have thought my comment a bit "in your face" LOL. If that's so I'm so sorry me I get a little over excited at times! Just to say I'm so happy that a blogger has put so much thought into this issue.Isabella in the 21st Centuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01477890093845193073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982896.post-1156665250461911472006-08-27T00:54:00.000-07:002006-08-27T00:54:00.000-07:00Hi ElizabethI really enjoyed this post for it's ba...Hi Elizabeth<BR/><BR/>I really enjoyed this post for it's balance and thoughtfulness. I have similar views on the burgeoning "keeper of the home" movement, because on most things in life I'm a "moderate" "middle ground" type of person. I also feel that to go forward we must not look through rose tinted spectacles at the past. My own family history tells me that people had their problems no matter what year they were born. We have a real opportunity to make the world a better place NOW. We can look at the past and take the best from it without the need to go back there.Isabella in the 21st Centuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01477890093845193073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982896.post-1156547639701207342006-08-25T16:13:00.000-07:002006-08-25T16:13:00.000-07:00..NYC TAXI SHOTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18108682053507674340noreply@blogger.com