Every night the past three days, as I’ve read Reeve Lindbergh’s book (beautifully illustrated by Jill McElmurry) entitled Our Nest, I’ve reflected on our health and good fortune to have each other and a home to return to each day, when we are tired and weary.
I don’t know if this blog entry will reach many people, but if you read this and have three to five hours of free time this month, I have found a wonderful way to share some skill and love with the evacuees and their children, who have very little “nest” to speak of. It’s a project called The Linus Connection and the mission is to “provide a handmade security blanket to every child who is in a crisis or at-risk situation in Central Texas.” If we are able to meet the basic needs of the evacuees, I think this would be a loving addition to the effort to help mend lives and offer warmth.
Austin’s News 8 featured this initiative a while back. To describe one benefit of the mission, founder Stephanie Sabatini offers:
“What we’re trying to do is provide security. This is something handmade that the kids know that people in the community are thinking about them, hoping for them and hoping that their lives get better perhaps than they have in the past.”
I love this bug jar block quilt. A six year-old friend of ours received one of these himself, as a gift. It’s adorable, just like this one:
