waiting rooms, knitting, and healing

[Brucie Connell]

I just returned from being with my Mom while she was dying.  It was a sad 
but not a bad thing.  She had been on dialysis for 4 years (at the age of 
87) and going off was something she really wanted to do.  How lucky to have 
that choice!

While there I started working on some needlepoint projects she had almost 
finished to give to my daughter and daughter-in-law.  At one time my sister 
and I were preparing to leave the Hospice and I said to wait as I had only 
2 stitches to complete that particular piece.  The next day I was working 
on a different piece and Mom joked that she thought I had done those 2 
stitches yesterday.  That was the day she died.  What a great woman.

But I got so much peace working on the needlepoint she had been doing.  My 
knitting stayed in its bag and I was too jangled to use the drop spindle I 
had brought.

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