A Community Quilt for Othniel

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 8:08 PM PDT

2009/09/10 · 20:08

Our friend othniel had surgery tomorrow (Thursday) to have a very deep abscess in his leg drained. He has been in a lot of pain and has felt understandable anxiety about the whole ordeal. It is a serious problem that he is dealing with and I know his is trying to keep his heart as light and brave as possible. It would be a very good thing if we sent him some support. So yesterday, I started a project through Street Prophets. http://www.streetprophets.com/...

I propose to make something for him – as quickly as I can – to remind him of our esteem and love for him while he heals. I am envisioning a simple, tied, lap quilt made from cheerful novelty fabrics interspersed with messages from us. Think of it as a giant get well card that will blanket him with good feeling.

We don’t have time to mail around patches for signing but if you would like to send a short message to othniel with your name (to fit in a 4.5 inch block), I will write it for you. We can have up to 65 messages (or fewer) -- and thirty something are remaining. So…if you would like to do this, write in a comment below what you would like to say to him.

I will take pictures, of course, before it is mailed.

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