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TREE OF LIFE (Eric Peltoniemi) Beggar's Blocks and Blind Man's Fancy, Boston Corners and Beacon Lights, Broken Starts and Buckeye Blossoms Blooming on the Tree of Life. Cho: Tree of Life, quilted by the lantern light, Every stitch a leaf upon the Tree of Life. Stitch away, sisters, stitch away. Hattie's Choice (Wheel of Fortune), and High Hosanna (Indiana), Hills and Valleys (Sweet Wood Lilies) and Heart's Delight (Tail of Benjamin's Kite), Hummingbird (Hovering Gander) in Honeysuckle (Oleander), Blooming on the Tree of Life. We're only known as someone's mother, Someone's daughter, or someone's wife, But with our hands and with our vision, We make the patterns on the Tree of Life. On Volume 1 of "Bok, Muir, & Trickett, the First Fifteen Years," Folk-Legacy Rec ords. From the play "Plain Hearts: Songs and Stories of Midwestern Prairie Women ," by Lance S. Belville, with music and lyrics by Eric Peltoniemi. The first two verses are comprised entirely of the names of quilting patterns. @feminist filename[ TREELIFE XX |
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