The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
We’re halfway through 2022 and here’s a report for the board of directors (that’s you) on the charity quilting of Judi and Keith. To date in 2022, we’ve completed 90 charity quilts, 56 for Project […]
Okay, so this just happened. Last week Judi saw an ad for an estate sale of a master quilter — teacher, author, international judge. Judi had to peek and came home with yardage for about […]
In the first three months of 2022, on average, Judi and I completed two charity quilts every three days — 61 total. That included a dozen twin-size quilts for Catholic Charities (CC). About 800 Afghan […]
Facebook recently reminded me of what I posted in December 2017. Four years ago, I sounded quite impressed that we had completed 88 charity quilts. The combination of retirement and stay-at-home COVID has altered the […]
Four weeks ago, Judi and I answered the call for 7,000 quilts from the Kansas City chapter of Project Linus. No, we did not commit to make thousands, but we did announce that we would […]
When the nurse came to help get Stella set up with her insulin pump in September 2019, he commented that he seemed to be the one from their office who takes the sibling groups. If […]
Stella gained five pounds in the two weeks after her diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). She gained nine pounds in six weeks. This is a good thing. In the season of life when her […]
"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