A crayon apron and love.
I’m participating in a 31-day blogging challenge called reverb10, responding to writing prompts that are designed to elicit reflections on 2010, and hopes for 2011. You can find out more about it here. I am challenging myself to respond to each prompt in 15 minutes or less.
Today’s challenge: Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it?
Making connections with a crayon apron and love.
From Donna’s obituary comes a deeper picture of a full, if short, life: Donna Lubell Quirke Hornik, age 4, of Chicago, died peacefully at home surrounded by her loving and heartbroken parents, Sheila Quirke and Jeremy Hornik. Donna was diagnosed with cancer at twenty months old. Despite an early prognosis of two to three months, she thrived for ten times that, living joyfully, gracefully. In her too brief life, Donna danced on the stage of the Auditorium Theater, consumed a mountain of macaroni and cheese, worried the winter trees were lonely and cold without their leaves and finally enjoyed the big girl swing all by herself. Donna was singular. She loved three books before bed, her weekly dance class with Miss Shawn, making new friends at Baker Demonstration School, dinosaur bones, the color black and telling her baby brother Jay he was too little to eat eggs. Through her website at CaringBridge.org, Donna’s story touched many.
Donna’s parents are helping other children in need with Donna’s Good Things, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing joyful opportunities for children facing adversity, be it economic, social, familial, or health related. You can “like” them on Facebook here.
[My husband, John, surprised me by creating this slideshow of Donna’s apron traveling with me this fall. My thanks, Johnny.]
