Like the coat of many colors, the letters, scraps,all those odds and bits we live by, we have cometo know. Folks here live by the pretty quiltsthey make, more than make actually, more than pretty.They are histories, their lives and their quilts.Indian people who have been scattered, sunderedinto odds and bits, determined to remake whole cloth.Nothing quits. It changes many times, sometimesto something we don't want, but we again gatherthe pieces, study them, decide, make decisions again,yes, and fit them to color, necessity, conditions,taste and choice, and start again. Our lives are quilts,letters, odds and bits, scraps, but always the threadloving through them, compassionate knowledgethat what we make is worth it and will outlastanything that was before and will be worthyof any people's art, endeavor, and final triumph.
Here, look at my clothes, quilts, coats of many colors!
