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Category: Cleo Thoughts

A Woman’s Potential

thewordfortheday.tumblr.com   “You can go to college. You can have a career. Study hard.” Those words from my mother still echo in my head. Good advice. But from a woman married to an alcoholic and poorer than a church mouse, the statistical possibility of her daughters graduating from college would…

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CleoLampos May 22, 2020 May 21, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, World War II 0

UFOs: Quilting During Covid-19

“I am SO guilty of starting a new project before I finish the last one.” – Julie Cefalu, The Crafty Quilter One of the positive consequences of “sheltering at home” during the virus epidemic has been the completion of so many UFOs- Unfinished Objects. Every quilting site on social media…

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CleoLampos April 23, 2020 April 22, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Quilts 0

Stay At Home Opportunity

“Women are like tea bags: You never know how strong they are until they’re in hot waters.”   Eleanor Roosevelt The news that a senior citizen like myself needed to stay inside for protection from a virus left an unsettling feeling. What could I do with all the time? Day after…

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CleoLampos April 9, 2020 April 7, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Gallant Warriors, Memories, The Great Depression, World War II 0

Meet the Quilters of WW2

“Without the aid of home front women warriors, maintaining the needs of the country and the military during the war would have been impossible.”   – Sue Reich The Grannies Quilt The call for quilts to help in the war effort fell onto the ears of many on the home front…

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CleoLampos March 19, 2020 March 18, 2020Cleo Thoughts, Memories, Quilts, The Great Depression, World War II 1

WW2 Quilters: Fighting with Needles and Thread

“Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women. This was a peoples’ war, and everyone was in it.”   – Olivia Culp Hobby, engraved on WWII Memorial in DC   With pride, thousands of women signed up for military service after the bombing of Pearl…

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CleoLampos March 16, 2020 March 16, 2020Celebration, Cleo Thoughts, Gallant Warriors, Memories, Quilts, World War II 0

Anything

“Where does God want to take your plenty and pour it out?” – Jennie Allen   One word kept appearing in the book I read with quickening hope. Anything. “The very idea of doing anything demands everything,” the author, Jennie Allen, wrote.¹ Complete surrender to God’s will. At the end…

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CleoLampos March 12, 2020 March 16, 2020Celebration, Cleo Thoughts, Memories, World War II 2
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