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> I didn't write it -- just saved it from the group. Does anyone know who
> did write it?
> --
> Kate in MI
> http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
>> This is what I copied and saved long ago... is this what you are looking
>> for?
>> A HUG is bits of fabric put together with love and understanding -- and
>> sometimes, a serious case of stitching-out-the-pain, for some of us who
>> cannot be there to administer the real, personal HUGs. A HUG is one way
>> (sometimes the only way we have, in this chunk of cyber-space, this big
>> quilting bee many of us have depended on in ways we can never fully
>> explain)
>> to put our arms around someone (and each other); to reach out and say "I
>> wish I could be there with/for you, in person, but I can't, and this will
>> just have to do, at least for now."
>> A HUG wraps the absolute caring that goes on in this newsgroup (RCTQ)
>> into a
>> tangible package for someone to touch, and feel, and cuddle down into
>> when
>> times are tough. Sometimes, a HUG is all we have, when words aren't
>> enough.
>> Now, don't think for an instant that HUGs are ALL sadness and tragedy.
>> Not
>> by a long shot, they aren't. There's almost always a lot of laughter
>> stitched into each HUG, and a lot of shared good-times. Lots of puns get
>> worked into many of the HUG-blocks, and lots of the things we've just
>> LEARNED about each other, from time to time. Lots of rainbows and
>> butterfly
>> wings and sunshine and flowers and just downright-silly-giggles, too.
>> There is an astonishing amount of power in a HUG, folks. Lightning and
>> thunder and some really sharp edges and planes. Anger, sometimes, in a
>> HUG.
>> A good, clean kind of anger.
>> A HUG is for Friendship and Family. A HUG helps with fear and pain. A HUG
>> is
>> for Laughter and good times and spinning around the room in a
>> happy-dance. A
>> HUG is all the things quilters do, for all the reasons they do the things
>> they do. But because mostly, quilters do what they do because they CARE
>> so
>> very deeply, and simply understand the perfect beauty of a HUG quilt.
>> May this HUG wrap you in the arms of all those who love you, many around
>> the
>> country, and around the world, who you may never meet but hold you and
>> those
>> you love deep in their hearts and daily in their prayers.
>> --
>> Kate in MIhttp://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
> You know? I don't think I've ever read that before now. That's
> lovely.

>I believe it was Sara from Las Cruces (used to participate in the group a
>lot - haven't heard from her here for a couple of years I think).