There has been something quietly stirring within me as I work on my legacy quilt and other creative projects lately and that is a deeper connection to the life of my 3 x great grandmother Mary, and to what it meant for her to live “on strength.” The phrase itself feels like more than history to me now. It feels like inheritance. As I stitch fabric together, I find myself thinking about the structure of Mary’s life and the daily duty, the utter responsibility and constant dem