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December
Favorite Quotation
- It was a Child who gave us Christmas; it is children who keep it fresh. To get the real good of Christmas, you have to see it through the eyes of a child. ~ Rachel Peden
Other Pieces of My Life
What I'm Reading
- How to Keep a Sketchbook Journal by Claudia Nice
- The Knitter's Book of Wool: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Using, and Loving this Most Fabulous Fiber by Clara Parkes
- American Quilts: Nature, Art, and History by Robert Shaw
- U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
- Ontario's Heritage Quilts by Marilyn I. Walker
Twelve Things I've Learned
- As I get older I am becoming fonder of tenderness
- Beauty fades but substance doesn't
- Don't compromise yourself, it's all you've got. (Janis Joplin)
- Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)
- Hope begins in the dark. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. It is important to fight for your joy
- I sing in church even though my singing is wretched; God doesn't care how well I sing
- I've never lost anything by giving things away
- Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff and hope you grow wings on the way down (Ray Bradbury)
- The best things come when you least expect them
- The two best prayers I know are: help me, help me, help me and thank you, thank you, thank you (Anne Lamott)
- There are cracks in everything; that's how the light comes in (Leonard Cohen)
- When you get the choice to sit it out or dance--I hope you dance! (Lee Ann Womack)
About Me
- Monique
- I am a wife, the mother of four grown sons, and work as a librarian/ archivist at a university library. I enjoy knitting socks and items for charity, reading, hand quilting, growing old-fashioned flowers, and bird watching.
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