Growing more patient

[frualeydis]

I find that after I made the Uvdal Gown with all its gathering threads I have gotten much more patience with sewing gathering threads. I am currently making a german, low cut smock which is gathered at the neck and the four rows of gathering threads have gone pretty quick and with less agony than expected. I'm going to do some simple smocking over the gathers. (This makes me wish to see bippimalin, but I assume that she's up north with her parents)
To get in the mood I'm re-watching Luther. Well after this, there was another reason to watch Luther - I am right now very grateful to Gustavus I and Olaus Petri for making Sweden Lutheran in 1523, the french enlightenment thinkers for spreading the idea of a secular state and most of all grateful that Sweden is now a very secularized country.

PS. I'm not saying that alla catholics are bigots, I have quite a few wonderful catholic friends, but the pope's position within the catholic church makes his political views problematic, to say the least (another example is the genocide committed by the church in Africa, where their untruthful propaganda against condoms is killing thousands every year in AIDS).

Comments

[noxcat.livejournal.com]

It disappoints me to no end that the US is not as secular as the Founding Fathers tried to make it. A secular state doesn't infringe on anyone's Right to Worship.

[therru.livejournal.com]

"Ecology"? So, Humanity needs to be "protected" from homosexuality because... it's an endangered species...? Um. Look again, Mr. Pope.

I haven't seen Luther. Maybe I should.