Fret Not Yourself

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. ~Mart...

Serve the people at the bottom. The people at the top don't need your help. ~Yuri Kochiyama Quilting I lost my quilting mojo this fall s...

Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hour...

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts. ~A. A. Milne Quilting The second shirt quit is also finished and gifted. ...

 Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. ~E.B. White Quilting This one-block shirt quilt is finished and in the mail. First it ...

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.  ~Aubrey de Graf Quilting I subcut the next set of 4.5" st...

Kind words cost little but they accomplish much. ~Blaise Pascal Quilting If you know me, you know there are still lots of strips cut. Way to...

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of w...

I wanted a perfect ending.  Now I've learned, the hard way,  that some poems don't rhyme,  and some stories don't have a clear b...

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people  - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the co...

You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent b...

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist. ...

The first casualty of war is the truth. ~Aeschylus Quilting Since I've made so many Four-letter-word quilts, I'm down to pretty dull...