Thank you all for being so kind to the greater Hokie community and to the friends and families of the victims.  I know my worry and sorrow was minuscule compared to what those who saw the shootings or lost loved ones experienced.  We can’t undo what happened on Monday, but we can try to comfort and care for those who were harmed, and we can better prepare ourselves to intercede if we come across someone on the brink of collapse.   

I was reminded this week, again and again, how wonderful my friends are.  I regularly wonder how I ended up knowing people who are so kind and dedicated to peace and community . . . I hope I deserve you all. 

Purlewe sent me more blanket food.  I think I got this package on Tuesday or Wednesday, and it was wonderful to focus on something bright and soft and warm.  Making the blanket has been particularly fun because my friends have been so generous with their sock-yarn leftovers. I’m playing with yarns and colors my own stash never hands over.  My own love of mud and loam forgets all about the blossoms I’m trying to nurture. 

It’s all daffodils and tulips and croci, with one strong steel trowel to tend them. 

And then I got another package yesterday afternoon, this time from Rachel.  I had an inkling this was coming, but I was gobsmacked.  When I opened it I found blanket food and . . . .

Fantastically beautiful lace socks.

Sooooo prettttttyyyyyyyyy.  No one has ever made me socks before, of course.  I turned insta-sappy, because it’s in my contract.  And then I rushed to change clothes and try them on.  They fit very nicely.  And they match, well, everything in our house.   

Wearing these is like having a dear friend’s arm around my shoulder.  But for my feet.  I keep taking them off, going outside to garden, and then coming in and scrubbing my feet so I can put the socks back on.  I think that may be the recipe for a perfect spring weekend.

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