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Across the Fence:  First Lady Grace Coolidge Must Had Been a FarmGirl  |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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 Posted - Mar 19 2020 : 1:25:40 PM
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I checked in on my favorite site to find wool for wool projects as well as patterns. There was a statement that their retail stop would not be opened because of the virus but still can order on line. Below that statement was one of Grace Coolidge's.
"Everyone should be taught to sew, not merely for the sake of making something, but as an accomplishment which may prove a stabilizer in time of perplexity or distress. Many a time when I need to hold myself firmly, I have taken up a needle - a sewing needle, some knitting needles, or a crochet (rug) hook. Whatever its form or purpose, it often proved to be as the needle of a compass, keeping me to the course." - First Lady Grace Coolidge
Think I would have liked to had tea with her.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Mar 19 2020 : 3:23:33 PM
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enough said!!! words to live by. thanks Sara.
Farming in WI
Michele
FGOTM June2019
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Dreamer42
True Blue Farmgirl
2681 Posts
April
Central
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Mar 19 2020 : 3:29:26 PM
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Love such wisdom!
Dreamer42
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
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Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Mar 19 2020 : 6:51:14 PM
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So true! I often find hand sewing to be very meditative and restful.
Judith
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Happiness is Homemade |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2020 : 05:27:10 AM
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Sara, thank-you so much for this wonderful quote from Grace Coolidge! These are perfect words for me during these hard and uncertain days of Coronavirus pandemic. For me, Grace speaks to what I am finding these days as I am basically home all the time. My Mom was 15 when the Great Depression happened and then she married in 1938 right before WWII. By the time Pearl Harbor happened, she had two babies and her two step children. She learned from her immigrant mother how to do the accomplishments of homemaking and self sufficiency during her teen years on a farm which prepared her to be frugal and skilled when she was raising a young family. She told me how she would take some of Dad’s worn out wool clothing and take it all apart and make her children coats and winter clothing. I can’t even imagine being able to do those sorts of things. But when you grow up using feed sack cloth to make dresses and other household items, I guess you learn how to dream and then create beautiful things. Whatever skills I have today all came from this Mother who never felt poor and always accepted a challenge and came out on the other side successful.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2020 : 06:32:31 AM
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Winnie, a beautiful tribute to your mother. Thanks for sharing your story.
Don't you think pioneer women living on the prairie or in a wildness found comfort, inspiration, and hope from other women when they met for quilting bees.
More than just a needle on a compass as Grace Coolidge put it for many women then and now what we do we our hands is a life line. With each stitch we tell ourselves we can get through it and this too shall pass. While we rely on our faith in hard times our busy hands help make it happen.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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