- Done for now: Hearts for Charleston is heading to Massachusetts

After adding some more stitch to the horizontal strips ...

and twenty cross stitches representing the children, young and grown, left behind by the nine who lost their lives at Emanuel ...

this piece of Hearts for Charleston feels done ...

I'll sleep on it, of course. But the cloth is already so freighted with symbolism (intended and unintended alike) that it doesn't feel right to add any more to it.

Thanks again to Dee Mallon for enabling me to take this journey through sadness and wonder. I have learned much along the way.

And to Deb Sposa's students: art, craft, creativity (whatever name you choose to give it) has the potential to change you in ways you can't imagine. It is worth every moment spent in pursuit of what you feel called to do.