Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Easter Resilience The Webster’s dictionary defines the adjective resilient as, “capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture.” Resilience, the noun, is “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” With the historical coronavirus pandemic raging around us, our circumstances scream for resilience. We

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Spring Blooms I love the perky daffodils, cheery forsythia, and ornamental pear trees bearing lovely blossoms. After the cold and gray skies of winter, the appearance of first spring flowers always surprises me. The weather seems way too chilly for flowers, yet there they are in all their splendor,

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Coronavirus The TV news is enough to make us want to climb in bed, pull the covers over our head and say, “Wake me when it’s over.” How many young couples across the nation are experiencing the frustration of scraping eagerly awaited wedding plans? A huge disappointment, but everything

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Raining Cats and Dogs—or Fish? We were enjoying a perfect day for a walk, not too cold nor too hot. Sunshine and lovely spring blossoms brought a bounce to our steps. We were wondering about the name of some of the less common flowers when we were startled by

Mary’s Monday musings to Quilt Encouragement Screech Owl The screech Owl is a surprisingly small bird for the owl family. In contrast to his size, his large screech at night is eerie enough to send shivers down the spines of small creatures in the area as well as sends uneasiness to humans within earshot. When

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Weakness So often, winter seems to bring colds, flu, or worse. When we recover from some sicknesses, there may follow a period of weakness as we work to recover our strength. The sense of weakness is annoying. We find our endurance seriously reduced, our muscular strength lacking, or our

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Foam Stonehenge The picture’s background gives away the fact this is not the Stonehenge built in England from enormous stones. Instead, it’s a model made from Styrofoam displayed at a fall festival near Washington, D.C.  I wonder what motivated someone to make a foam Stonehenge. Since the dimensions were

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Snow My husband and I live in a climate where it seldom snows. Hence, snow is a big event. When the forecast calls for snow, the grocery stores fill up with people who rapidly empty the shelves of staples. Because of the lack of practice, many of our local

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Wayward Doggy A deer crossing her yard was beyond the dog’s resisting. The temptation to run after this new looking creature stirred all Annie’s dog instincts. As darkness settled over the new yard where she’d only lived a short time, the Chocolate Labrador ran after the intruder on her

Mary’s Monday Musing to Quilt Encouragement Medicine The nurse rolled a sturdy pole on wheels to my hospital bedside. From it, she carefully hung several bags filled with clear, heavy looking fluids. One was labeled Cipro. The other labels were too small to read from where my head lay on my pillow. With gentle efficiency,