The Office Assistant - Lots of chat, no more crochet?

John is a morning person and a talented painter who stopped in to chat for the first time after dodging me for 3 weeks. Claudia bowled right up without any hestiation. She makes quilts and gifts them to womens shelters here in Portland. She has also been honored with the Spirit of Portland award, hosted by Mayoress Vera Katz and shook her hand, and appeared on a morning tv show. This time I sat in the chair and soaked it all in - her life is as rich as her quilts must be. When I asked her to sum up where she is now, she promptly said "I am happy with my life - I have finally arrived!"

Angel came by with her very proud mum to tell me that she summarized this project for one of her school assignments. WOW! Thank-you Angel. Tim greets me with 'Konichiwa' and much better Japanese than I can muster right now. He signed off with I L Y. There is only one finger difference between I L Y and I H Y - which seems to be an international standard in most languages. David is a return visitor and this time brought Gwenn to see the quilt.



Gail was put to work, and managed to stay long enough for us to complete a magnificently fragmented conversation. We agreed that a lot of people don't know how to create options for themselves. The Urban Tour School group came through a bit like an advancing army division - too many to roll up and make burritos out of, but they certainly asked some lively questions - which is always educational for me. Yvette was also put to work and told her story of immigrating from the Phillipines and first working for the City as a Receptionist.




Lisa and Zumana had read about the project and came by, as had Pauline. You can't here Paulines' Irish accent, and I have to apologise for the blurry image - blame it on the residual symptoms of SCC. G. Jean Thomas confided that her first name is Gladys, which I think is a beatiful name, but she uses just the first initial. Queen M also has a beautiful name that defies syntax when written on the page as oppossed to hearing it pronounced. (OK - I got it wrong twice, and now can't remember which is correct and which is not!)

And my comment today - not much. I will 'tell' you the answers to the "questions" tomorrow though. Tonight was another great leap in the blog learning curve - I just figured out how to match the images with the text a bit better. It only took a month...

Oh! If I get my next grant application written tonight after posting this, then I will be in a bit late tomorrow. (I have to get a date timbre at the post office). Most of you know the routine......
...........start without me. :-)
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