My third daughter called me two and half years ago to say she could not talk to me for awhile.
She had moved across the country three years prior without telling me until she was moved.
A bit before she moved (when we were talking) she gave me a partially constructed t-shirt quilt top, asking me to finish it for her.
I have the opportunity now, with a focused two-week support, to resurrect the project and make it for her and perhaps send it to her in the fall at her birthday.
For all messages at holidays and birthdays I send a love message and hear nothing back. The same thing has happened when I messaged the other day if she was still interested in having the t-shirt quilt completed.
(Ah, I mailed a birthday give last fall to the address I was given and it was returned because the address was not correct.)
The estrangement is of course not because of the quilt. The quilt is something I can now do for her.
Ohh, and she is engaged to be married sometime this year. I only know her fiancé’s first name and nothing else.
How does one work with such a hard and firm wall? Rhetorical question perhaps~