Beyond our immediate family members, where is our family community?
I am finding a sense of family in my many craft and hand-work groups.
Knitters, quilters, weavers, spinners, all are givers.
They have all taken the time to learn a skill with various levels of complexity and beauty.
This is a sharing community where all skill levels are respected, and programs and workshops constantly give us all help in improving.
Somehow, when a group of women get together, the conversation is supportive of the issues we all have in common.
We discuss family, work, how to help ease relationships, how to get through hard times.
We celebrate the beautiful things we are all making, congratulate each other on children graduating and becoming self-supporting.
Mainly, there is just an atmosphere of people who have been through good times and bad, who have survived and who are thriving.
It is a place we can receive and give comfort to all of us.
© 2017 Kathryn Hardage
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