Inklings // February 2025

And.... here we are again! 

During February we had family visiting (lotttttts of Ticket to Ride and talking ....and rain) and then I had a big writing project with a deadline (if you're interested, you can read it here) + housekeeping, homeschooling, gardening, all that. 

And spring is definitely spring-ing with fruit blossoms and daffodils and all sorts of deliciousness.  

I'm having so much fun seeing all your entries and wanna keep this going, so I'm just going to do the best I can to get Inklings up whenever possible each month. As long as the next month hasn't gone up, feel free to jump in whenever and participate! 💜 I'll leave this one open for at least the first two weeks of March. 

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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February's prompt is:

A scene at the piano

It's been a long time, but I rewatched the '95 Pride and Prejudice with my mom and youngest sister during their visit, and fell in love with it all over again. (Speaking of which, I can't believe this year will be its 30th anniversary! I looked it up and just discovered that it looks like the first ep aired for the first time ever on what would become a significant date for my husband and I as well. 😳 My brain doesn't quite know what to do with that. 😄😂 And I've been wanting to do a proper review of it for a long time, so hoping I can make that happen this year too. That would be kinda special, right?)

There are a number of excellent pianoforte scenes in P&P, but I'm definitely highlighting THE scene below. I couldn't find a lot of screenshots for the actual scene, so I'll share it in its entirety via YT. I know it's summertime in the story, but something about the very sunlight this time of year -- the clear gold of it + the freshness of spring -- just seems to click with the composition of this beautiful scene as well. 

Enjoy!

Have you seen this version of Pride and Prejudice? 

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🌿 Can't wait to see what y'all come up with and have fun! 🌿

Inklings // January 2025

Happy January everyone! Hope you've been having a wonderful month. It's been super full here -- between Christmas and Epiphany festivities, garden planning, dental appointments, seasonal flu bug, book studies + playing catch up and going down some major research rabbit trails (long story, whew) -- anyway(!), yes, it's been a full month. 

But I didn't want to miss our first Inklings of the year, so here we are. ;) I'll leave entries open till mid-February, so feel free to jump in anytime in the next couple weeks. 💜

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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January's prompt is:

A scene at sunrise

We finished On the Banks of Plum Creek this month and I just loved the following scene:

"In the mornings they ran through the dewy chill grass that wet their feet and dabbled the hems of their dresses. They liked to splash their bare feet through the grass all strung with dewdrops. They liked to watch the sun rise over the edge of the world.

First everything was grey and still. The sky was grey, the grass was grey with dew, the light was grey and the wind held its breath.

Then sharp streaks of green came into the eastern sky. If there was a little cloud, it turned pink. Laura and Mary sat on the damp, cold rock, hugging their chilly legs. They rested their chins on their knees and watched, and in the grass below them Jack sat, watching, too. But they never could see when the sky first began to be pink. 

The sky was very faintly pink, then it was pinker. The colour went higher up the sky. It grew brighter and deeper. It blazed like fire, and suddenly the little cloud was glittering gold. In the centre of the blazing color, on the flat edge of the earth, a tiny sliver of sun appeared. It was a short streak of white fire. Suddenly the whole sun bounded up, round and huge, far bigger than the ordinary sun and throbbing with so much light that its roundness almost burst.

Laura couldn't help blinking. While she blinked just once, the sky turned blue, the golden cloud vanished. The everyday sun shone over the prairie grasses where thousands of birds were flying and twittering."

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🌿 Can't wait to see what y'all come up with and have fun! 🌿

Epiphany 2025

(Wrote this on the 6th/Epiphany, but didn't get it posted immediately. It fits for the entire season though.)

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During Christmastide this year I read Elizabeth Goudge's 'I Saw Three Ships'. (Such a sweet little story, highly recommend!) The paragraph at the top of this page has really stuck with me and I wanted to share for Epiphany today.

Epiphany is when we remember the Wise Men bringing their gifts to Christ and the light -- the Gospel -- now going to the Gentiles. 💓 I've always heard how the gold points to Christ's kingship, the frankincense to His divinity, and the myrrh to His death. We should always, ALWAYS see how every passage points to Christ first and foremost (so that's good), but downstream from that I think Goudge's quote above is very intriguing and fits the context too. 

As we celebrate Epiphany today -- with joy and gladness for God's unimaginable goodness and kindness in sending His precious Son to save us poor lost sinners -- may we respond with utter humility, prostrate with trembling joy before Him -- laying all of our living, our prayers, and our death in His service. Not for what we think He should best do with them, but really and genuinely in His service, however that looks and whatever He pleases for us to do. ✝️