Progress!!

I have a friend for whom words and oxygen are in constant competition. On a daily basis, I'm always trying to drag her out of the lunch room so that we won't be late for French. I reiterate to her, "Forward motion is a wonderful thing."

I'm truly excited to say that while my friend is still working on the idea of "forward motion," Caring Caps seems to have captured it in the blink of an eye! People are finding various ways to participate in it: A local group of yarn-crafters have committed themselves to either knitting or crocheting for two hours every Friday. On September 28th, we had the first finished project of the group, and it was magical. As this was the woman's first project, there were mistakes that she had made. Although no one else would know about them, she had deemed those tiny displays of non-uniformity as just enough cause to keep her first project for herself. Yet, as my mom and packed up our supplies to go home, I noticed the woman's child-like glee as she tried on her steel blue cowl. I didn't stop to praise the incredibly fast forward "motion that" she had made for the umpteenth time; I let her bask in the moment that was warm like summer sunshine that drips and permeates slowly into your skin, and quietly slipped out behind my mother.

Countless others are weaving themselves into the fabric of Caring Caps, and each person is bringing something dazzlingly unable to be duplicated. Parents of my friends have offered to help cover costs of yarn and needles, and members of the Brooks Place Knitters have agreed to help add to the number of donations. Loads of help in the schematics of Caring Caps is coming in, too. Several staff at the Clark County Public Library are helping me with advertising ideas, blocking off time to use a room, and fixing technical errors and problems. The team is growing, but it's missing someone: You.