I have always grown flowers. At our last home, I had very little grass on our quarter acre. There were flowers blooming from spring until frost all over the yard.
One of my neighbor's asked why I didn't plant vegetables. He always had a large vegetable garden and never planted any flowers. I responded, "Someone has to grow something for the soul."
Dianne
Excuse me Ruby ,,,, You are confusing me with some of your Friends who back of from waht they said after, they see it isn`t cheered by all .I never say i meant something else , when i say A i mean A and when i say B i mean B ... mirjam
scottnh said
FWIW, info about the project can be found at
Eat your hearts out 'cause I now count Nancy Claiborne, one of the moving forces behind the tapestry, as a friend
Here in Canada (and maybe elsewhere), quilts are also used to promote awareness of breast cancer. People contribute blocks in celebration of the living, or in memory of the dead, and the quilts are displayed and then auctioned to raise funds for research. So they are both beautiful and, in the end, useful. I find much of the work very moving, as I do the AIDS quilts. Dawne, whose best friend died at 42 of breast cancer
Thank you Dawne , i also understand and even participated in memorial cloth that was auctioned and the money was later donated to a cancer progrmam and to a nature preserving program. All this doesn`t stop me from thinking about `public` projects, and pondering about each one`s goal , when the call comes to collect the parts. Thinking about it is the first goal , just like you wrote! to enhance awareness. My ponderings are part of the awareness. Flaming me for my ponderings about a Quilt meantto promote friendship ???? doesn`t seem having much aareness to the cause. It seems that everyone knows some one that died of cancer. mirjam
"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" wrote .
Fair enough. I wonder myself sometimes. There are many good projects that meet a real need--some of them practical, like stitching tiny clothes for premature babies, and some of them more for the soul, like the wall hanging a class on feminist art history I was a member of did for the office of the newly opened Women's Studies department at the uni. But when I wonder about the sense or practicality of a project, I still like the human urge to do something, and to connect, that is behind it.
It is a good thing, in the end, we are not all the same. When there is a death in the family, some people bring casseroles, some people bring flowers, some write, some just come to sit with you. And each response is right, because it is the heart impulse of the person who makes it. So, when there is a disaster, some send money, some send quilts (and some, like Pat Porter, send clean underwear). And I imagine each gift works for someone!
And as we get older, unfortunately, we know more and more of them. Dawne
Good Morning [ here] , good night your side Dawne ,,,
I am in tottal agreement with you about the various `uses` of those projects. But as i wrote , having been on the recieving side of some useless annoying `donations`, which only took up living space. Having worked with disaster area people, gave me so many points of view, and everytime i will ponder, think and research the project , it`s cause /goal and end use ...
Ohh that is nice to read ..
I like the human touch , but Alas sometimes , items given are things people don`t need anymore and than it might be a burden on the recievers ,,,,
In our tradition we come, talk and bring food, No flowers to the house of the berieved , only to the grave.
Well i sent my Friends, who lost their house to Katherina , ,T shirts, warm training suits that might be used as pj s , soap , sewing things, some fun things for the kid, a Cloth shopping bag, our special Floor rugs that are useful as bedside rugs , socks . Basic stuff . mirjam
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