"This is the perplexing balance the last few days have revealed to me. There was and is such an overwhelming sense of despair, but since Tuesday morning, there seems to have been quite a remarkable surge of grace as well. Compassion and generosity and immeasurable goodness like I have never seen. And no, it doesn't do a thing to diminish the losses that have been suffered. And yes, one can question why it takes an event of such magnitude to wring this response from us, and why other injustices we perhaps should not have tolerated have gone forward without it. But in the end, what encourages me is the knowledge that this must have always been in us -- this goodness, this grace, this shared understanding of what matters and what doesn't. Now that we have displayed it to each other in such a conspicuous fashion, perhaps we will more easily remember that we have it. And that is enough to give me hope."

10:40 AM - A while back I finished the quilting on a round robin quilt I've been working on for a long, long time. Here are three pictures.

Here also is a picture of the dinosaur quilt that I made recently for my charming and adorable nephew.