TREE OF LIFE
(Eric Peltoniemi)
Beggar's Block and Blind Man's Fancy
Boston Corner and Beacon Light
Broken Star and Buckeye Blossom
Blooming on the Tree of Life 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 Hosannah (Indiana)
Hills and Valleys (Sweet Woodlilies) 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 of the Tree of Life.
(On Volume 1 of Bok, Muir, & Trickett, the First Fifteen Years, Folk-Legacy Records)
From a play entitled 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.
Happy birthday, MAG.
-Joe Offer, a month older and wiser than you are-
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