“Ideas won’t keep: something must be done about them.” -Alfred Whitehead- journal entry: I have granddaughters who are just learning to cook. Their first pick is the recipe with 25 ingredients and 17 steps. One is going to be a Chef when she grows up. Okay. Good. Time …
“The soul is healed by being with children.” – Dostevsky – journal entry: It is one of my favorite paintings by Harry Anderson and I love many of his paintings. While he primarily painted religious themes he is known for other paintings with touching and timeless themes. This painting is …
“It might be easier to fail with land in sight, than gain my blue peninsula to perish of delight. -Emily Dickinson- journal entry: When I opened the door of the quilt shop, like a magnet the fabric drew me to it. It wasn’t ordinary chenille. It still had pencil lines …
“Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: I am constantly wondering why I didn’t think of things when I was younger. For example, this car seat cover. Maybe it is because I didn’t put my children …
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” -Zora Neale Hurston- journal entry: I often wonder what will matter the most to me when I am old . . . I mean really old, not youngish old like I am today. I believe that it will be the …
“I feel pretty . . . oh, so pretty. I feel pretty and witty and gay !” -Maria from West Side Story- journal entry: When I was growing up, the rule was to NEVER mix two prints together. If you wore a print skirt, you wore a plain blouse. Isn’t …
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, — And reverie. The reverie alone will do if bees are few.” -Emily Dickinson- journal entry: I struggled to teach my daughters to wear slips with their skirts. Now, they want fancy and frilly “Sunday Aprons”. Go figure. I …
“Boys will be boys and girls will be boys . . . so give them something safe to throw.” -Grandma- journal entry: How far back in time do we have to go to find the invention of bean bags? I guess you had to live in a time when you …
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, Keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” -Winnie-the-Pooh to Piglet- journal entry: Two inches. That is as big as these little pincushions grow. I made a pattern out of a scrap of card stock …
“You’re in pretty good shape . . . for the shape you are in !” -Dr. Suess- journal entry: I have never been one to wear rubber gloves. I wear garden gloves and winter gloves. Grandpa wears gloves without fingers and work gloves. There are women who …
