I hope by now you’ve had a chance to play around on our fabulous new website, which we announced a week ago. Thanks for all the lovely comments…we are excited also!
It was a tough holiday for us. We marked the 20th anniversary of the loss of our daughter Hanna on the Solstice. Her loss was the inspiration for our charity program, which has raised over $1.3m for orphans, disaster and medical relief, breast cancer research, and environmental organizations.
You may recall that a year ago Paul gave me a male puppy for my birthday present, as a companion to our female golden. Alfie has been a most beloved and special doggie, but on Christmas Eve we rushed him to the animal hospital, at 5 am Christmas Day he went into surgery, and a couple hours later we learned there was too much damage for him to live a quality life…so we made the difficult decision to let him go, and he did not wake up from surgery. I shared this on my Facebook page yesterday, and thank you to everyone who left comments. It is heartbreaking for our whole family, to say the least.
However, I saw plenty of other people on Facebook yesterday who have just lost spouses, siblings, and pets. Some went into the hospital…some just got out of hospital (like my friend Mark Lipinski), so I am thinking of all of you who have gone through losses and challenges over the holiday, and I am sending you a big hug.
I also saw so many of you announcing new grandbabies, being on the cover of a magazine, celebrating with reunited & extended family, finally finishing a quilt, but I also saw a dog who ran away on Christmas, and all the terrible storms this weekend. Despite the holiday season, life continues to unfold, and we take it as it comes.
However, NASA released a new photo of Earth, this blue marble spaceship we share as it travels through space and time. This perspective invites us to view our lives, our world, even our quilts, from a different perspective.
As one year draws to a close, and a new year full of hope and challenges, bumps up against the starting gate, I know that you will join me in making quilts, sewing for ourselves and others, to make sense of this life and share our hearts…one stitch at a time.
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