About today....

Yesterday Mr. Husband and I went on a short walk

and saw berries growing... 

 We have no green space where we live,

other than this little square.

I want flowers in it but there

is concern also for the tree roots...

I really do hope for some pretty flowers 

or something to make our condo lovely 

inside and out!

We and others had some icons blessed yesterday...

The Guardian Angel Icon 

and the Christ the Good Shepherd,

St. Elizabeth and the Protection of the Mother of God

were all from my trip to St. Tikhon's.

This small icon is of

Saint Elizabeth the New Martyr.

Given, newly blessed, to a couple moving back to PA 

after being with our church for a year.

The wife knits and sews and I am going

to miss her kindness, talking shop and just her 

presence with us,

her beautiful knit blue sweater and long blue skirt...

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I watched this video on Lisa's suggestion

and WOW. very worth watching.

Beautiful women, working to unravel clothes

from the West where they were so often so easily discarded.

They are unravelled and made into yarn and then woven

into blankets and sent back to the West...

Really caught my attention; 

I have bought new clothes and will be giving

away a bunch to charity...

For me I found what one of my first bosses' told me to be true:

as we age our metabolism changes and well,

many of the clothes I had simple don't fit anymore.

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I try, when I buy new clothes, to pray for

the hands that made the clothes, 

quite often, even normally, in other countries...

now I think it would be good if I just prayed for them daily upon 

getting into the clothes...

such beautiful people,

such beauty amidst poverty and the shining sun...

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I find there is so much irony in life;
that video; they were poor, but look at their smiles and their
beautiful clothes and children;
so much beauty in the midst of it all.
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The same day I see this video,
I find out about clothes that I may need to get....
I am going to a wedding later this summer DV.
I hear the dress code is fancy.
I am so not fancy, not really.
I like long skirts and quiet ways and words.
So, not sure what to do in finding something that
I can wear to more than 1 event...
long, dressy, flowy, beautiful and reusable....
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Meanwhile, I am watching quilting videos, including these two.