{"id":513,"date":"2009-02-08T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2009-02-08T00:16:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T05:16:48","slug":"first-mail-received-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"first mail received there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAMOUS<br \/>\nby Naomi Shihab Nye<\/p>\n<p>The river is famous to the fish.<\/p>\n<p>The loud voice is famous to silence,<br \/>\nwhich knew it would inherit the earth<br \/>\nbefore anybody said so.<\/p>\n<p>The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds<br \/>\nwatching him from the birdhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.<\/p>\n<p>The idea you carry close to your bosom<br \/>\nis famous to your bosom.<\/p>\n<p>The boot is famous to the earth,<br \/>\nmore famous than the dress shoe,<br \/>\nwhich is famous only to floors.<\/p>\n<p>The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it<br \/>\nand not at all famous to the one who is pictured.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be famous to shuffling men<br \/>\nwho smile while crossing streets,<br \/>\nsticky children in grocery lines,<br \/>\nfamous as the one who smiled back.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,<br \/>\nor a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,<br \/>\nbut because it never forgot what it could do.<\/p>\n<p>~~~<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/020709openmefirst.jpg\" alt=\"020709openmefirst.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"337\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>i have come to e-know so many people through blogs, each (you know who you are) famous to me in their own way. two women are particularly famous tonight because not only did they not forget what they could do, they took action and did it! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quiltdivajulie.blogspot.com\/\">julie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/laneyloo.wordpress.com\/\">laney<\/a> are sweet, empathetic, generous souls who read my whines about threadless days i&#8217;m enduring as we move, and they each put together a care package and mailed it to me. <\/p>\n<p>from julie:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/020709goodiesfromjulie.jpg\" alt=\"020709goodiesfromjulie.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"312\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>and from laney:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/020709goodiesfromlaney.jpg\" alt=\"020709goodiesfromlaney.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"244\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>from both: delicious fabrics in a variety of colors and textures, needles, thread, scissors, batting, paper and colored pencils, several downright thought-provoking morsels &#8211; everything i need to satisfy my itching hands, soothe my soul, and stoke my inquiring mind.<\/p>\n<p>thank you both, for your thoughtful, caring generosity. i will have sweet, sweet dreams tonight as visions of stitching plums dance in my head . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAMOUS by Naomi Shihab Nye The river is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth before anybody said so. The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds watching him from the birdhouse. The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek. 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