“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 Harbor. But, millions of women […]
Category Archives: Celebration
“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – TV show, The Wonder Years Bill carried in a box of neatly folded t-shirts and started to lay them out on the long table. The women gathered for the Stitchers’ meeting gazed […]
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“A child born to another woman calls me mommy. The magnitude of that tragedy and the depth of that privilege are not lost on me.” -Jody Landers Another parent-teacher conference ended with the stars twinkling in the night sky, and me scuttling to my Saturn in a nearly empty school parking lot. Invariably, the […]
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough. – Melody Beattie Photo by smorielorrie on flickr with Thimbleberries pattern The proverbial glass is always half full for me. Some say, “Cleo can find the good in even a garbage pile.” That’s true. For an art project in college, I water-colored a pile of overflowing trash cans […]
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi From eQuilter.com As a child living in a struggling household, I attended a one-room school house in rural Wisconsin. The snow fell thick on the corn stubbed fields surrounding our school as the wind whistled around the […]
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“God calls us to gratitude. Not necessarily gratitude for our struggles, but gratitude in spite of them and in the very midst of them.” -Jena Morrow, Hope for the Hollow Quilt-First Star/See Tonight by Susan Schrott Quilting and healing have long been a combination that makes each stitch a way to bind up wounds and secure […]
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“An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.” – An ancient Chinese belief A new baby in the family. Joy bursts untethered as the parents, grandparents, extended family, and friends prepare for the arrival of the […]
“All I want is to share a lifetime with you.” – Vern Lampos Like every bride, shopping for the wedding gown morphed into a major event. As a second year teacher in an urban setting, my bridal budget resembled an ostrich egg. My mother, a retiree living on social security, insisted on buying my nuptial […]
Crossing Guards: Safe Passage to School By Cleo Lampos For weeks now, those of us who live in the city of Chicago have been hearing about Safe Passage. It is the route that the children of Chicago Public Schools need to traverse twice every day to get to and from their institutions of learning. Most […]
Photo from peoplesbanktheatre.com The music filled the Dorothy Meneker Theatre with 110 voices singing in four part harmony backed by live musicians playing violins, flutes, cellos and muted drums. The words formed inspiring images of reaching for dreams and finding them attainable by one thing: believe. The message from the song “Believe” from the hit […]
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