I loved the books and the movies as a child. My daughter and I have enjoyed the Netflix show. Anne wears her emotions on her sleeves, so to speak, and I love that about her. She is unwilling to let others dictate to her how she should feel and leans in to what her body is telling her. I think we can all learn a lot from that.
I like this post and it helps me understand this scene better than I have before.
I also have a technical question about Substack. I am using Firefox, up to date version, and when I print preview and also when I print the post, the fifth paragraph does not print? It should print at the top of page 2 but instead the next paragraph leads page 2, after the photo of PEI. I have the print dialogue set to scale at 75% since that would be plenty large enough for reading. Very odd...
This is really interesting because I read the books as a child and loved them. I felt drawn to Anne as a feeler of deep emotions, as I was/am but it confused me I think because I was often told to pipe down or cheer up. Many of the messages from the grown ups around me as a child were telling me I couldn't possibly feel all the things I was feeling. And also gave me things I 'should' have feelings about... At the time I didn't really notice anything wrong, but looking back it was not great.
I loved the books and the movies as a child. My daughter and I have enjoyed the Netflix show. Anne wears her emotions on her sleeves, so to speak, and I love that about her. She is unwilling to let others dictate to her how she should feel and leans in to what her body is telling her. I think we can all learn a lot from that.
I love her expressive emotions.
I like this post and it helps me understand this scene better than I have before.
I also have a technical question about Substack. I am using Firefox, up to date version, and when I print preview and also when I print the post, the fifth paragraph does not print? It should print at the top of page 2 but instead the next paragraph leads page 2, after the photo of PEI. I have the print dialogue set to scale at 75% since that would be plenty large enough for reading. Very odd...
That is definitely weird!
This is really interesting because I read the books as a child and loved them. I felt drawn to Anne as a feeler of deep emotions, as I was/am but it confused me I think because I was often told to pipe down or cheer up. Many of the messages from the grown ups around me as a child were telling me I couldn't possibly feel all the things I was feeling. And also gave me things I 'should' have feelings about... At the time I didn't really notice anything wrong, but looking back it was not great.
I'm so sorry they invalidated your emotions!
Thanks Becky, it's a long journey towards ourselves isn't it!