Here’s this week’s story to ponder. Perhaps the cloth from last week’s story is used in today’s story based on Nancy Schimmel’s story titled The Tailor In E. Brody, J. Goldspinner, K. Green, R. Leventhal & J. Porcino (Eds.), Spinning tales, weaving hope: Stories, storytelling and activities for peace, justice and environment (2nd ed., pp. 211). New Society Publishers. Nancy based her story on the Yiddish song Hob Ikh mir a mantl (I had a little coat).

What have you tailored to fit you?

And you discard the worn out parts to fashion anew?

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