Searching for wisdom, I have spent considerable effort exploring each of my relatives. There is a beautiful video put together by the JCBA Pittsburgh that shows my family’s cemetery, among many others, maintained by JCBA. The cemetery is one way to sit with the souls of the Shapiro family in the quiet of their gravesites, to ponder about their lives.
Another way I commune with my relatives is through my embroidery. There are several examples of this- including these of early attempts. The one on the left is my great grandfather and mother from my father’s family. The one on the right is my grand father and mother on my mother’s side.
I did them again this year putting them into the context of my entire linage.
And this is the latest embroidery of my whole misphachah:
Through The Generations; 36”H X 29”W;Hand Embroidered French Knots & Machine Pieced Denim Patchwork; Row 1: Libby, Noah, Morris, Ann, Row 2: Samuel, Ida, Sarah, Hymen, Row 3: Sarah, Sadye, Louise, Howard, Row 4: Isadora, Hailey, Eli, Maya
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