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There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes.
Christmas in July … and August
Early this summer we realized that we had three 16x22x11-inch totes and two 16x22x6-inch totes filled with Christmas fabric. Judi estimated that maybe ninety percent of this fabric we received from other people and the […]
Mid-year report on charity quilting
Here’s our mid-year report to the board of directors. (If you are reading this, that’s you.) We begin with a confession. This must be the year of the sloth. In the midst of stay-at-home 2020, […]
Q1 report on charity quilting
Here’s the first 2021 report to the board of directors (that’s you) for the charity quilting operations in our basement. Last year at this time, we were settled in to the stay-at-home average of one […]
A Song
Sing with me … Night and day she sews and sews.Just how many quilts she’s madeGod only knows.Whether morning, night, or noonThe machine is on, sound fills the room,I hear the hum night and day. […]
Ketoacidosis
Every fall in the last decade I have joined with those in KC raising money for JDRF, a foundation that supports research in type one diabetes. I’m letting you know now to expect my invitation […]
com + fort
I like exploring words from the inside. The word comfort has two parts: com- (together, beside) + fort (strong). A FORTress is a strong place. FORTitude is strength and courage in adversity. To comfort (verb), […]
Part 3: Annual Report on Charity Quilting
Stephen Covey called it sharpening the saw. I think that’s a fair image of how Judi and I will start 2021. Judi is at the sewing machine almost every night, usually sewing for the benefit […]
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"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House