Here we are in Mid-May. I imagine that many of you are feeling the same as us here – we are feeling Corona Fatigue – but there is no realistic end in sight. So….it is what it is…and we are now preparing for the long view on the current situation. Our staff is working long hours to get your orders out as fast as humanly possible. If you have an urgent order give us a call, especially if you are making masks. I expect that most quilters have been sewing masks for several weeks now, having discovered that we have a Super Power. Who wouldn’t want to use a newly-discovered super power for the good of all during an emergency? But we all need to take a rest now and then.
I can only imagine the stories you all have, about how you and your families are enduring this historic event. In our family, our older son has been laid off his management job, our middle son has been home sick for over 3 years, and Sophie has finished school without a graduation ceremony. I haven’t seen my mom in person since her nursing home went into lockdown 2 months ago. And yet we are all generally safe and healthy. I know many of you have suffered losses now due to the virus, and we send you our deepest sympathies. We hope that for those of you suffering losses, and enduring longterm stresses, that browsing our images brings you some peace and perhaps a bit of inspiration and joy.
Kathy Price has written to us, asking for help for the Lakota Sioux people who live on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud and Standing Rock reservations, for Migrant Workers in the US who have no food, and for a hospital in Guatemala that has no supplies. She says that her organizers see people dying from starvation every day, and we are sending her extra funds this week because we know she can do more with a dollar than anyone we know. You can help too by making a direct donation. She will not turn away from those in such desperate need. (Kathy was the subject of my quilt in the “Better World” exhibit in Houston last fall.)
We also thank those who are making masks for Doctors Without Borders. They received their first package of 90 masks this week and they send their gratitude! If you send 50 or more masks, or if you live near New York, send directly to their NYC office:
Doctors Without Borders – Facemasks
40 Rector St., 16th Floor
New York, NY 10006
For smaller packages, or if you are local, you can send them to us and we will combine them into a larger shipment to their NYC offices. These masks will be used for their staff and patients for virus protection, in their NYC and other US projects.
Wishing you health and peace in these troubled times,
Luana and Paul
