For those of you who love to be challenged by a great book and feel thre need to change the world for the better I can reccomend Half the Sky by Nicholas D.Christof and Sherly WuDone. This powerful treatise touches on the oppression of women through out the world, through slavery, lack of education, poverty, and death and mutilation in childbirth and cutting. All of these things are at our door step. The book overwhelmed me with statistics and then brought be face to face with individual stories that moved me to tears. But in addition to all this it reccomends things that individuals have and can do to save one girl or woman at a time. My daughter Evalyn is my book adviser and she is never wrong.

NEXT TOPIC - THE OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENT OF A MARVELOUS WOMAN with the help of a dear good man. The woman is my daughter-in-law Wendy Lane Bailey and the man is her husband Ross. She also received a leg up from her brother-in-law Isaac Bailey who was her photographer. After months of labor Wendy has her very first CD which just thrills me every time I listen to it. If you choose to purchase it, it will thrill you too. Wendy's Website is connected to this blog spot. Here's the cover. A CD costs 10.00 per copy plus shipping.
Now just because I'm here I need to tell you about The Cosmic Cow in Lincoln Nebraska. Roxanne and Richard O'Hare are about to open their second store in Seward about 30 miles from their shop in Hevelock. It will be called The Udder Store. Do you love it? It will feature a mixed media area full or alternative stuff to include on your quilts, dolls and garments. I shall be in Seward for the opening in June and over the forth of July. I am thrilled. You all know how I love Nebraska and this is why. Here are the tassels waving for the Forth of July. Seward is known for it's celebration of the Forth.