It's Time to Send Your Grandma A Box of Love...

It's that time of year when Adopt-a-Native Elder is soliciting for sponsors to donate food boxes to Navajo elders--the vast majority of them women who have spent much of their lives raising sheep, carding, spinning and dyeing their own yarns and, with those yarns, weaving beautiful Navajo rugs and blankets that have helped support them and their families financially. Now these lovely elders are often too old to weave much, if at all, and many of them live in impoverished conditions, often in homes without central heat and running water. Linda Myers of Adopt-a-Native-Elder, based in Park City, Utah, has assembled a cadre of guardian angels that deliver food boxes, fire wood and toiletries to the elders, once in the spring and again in the fall. Linda is now looking for volunteers to fund the spring food box runs, and to financially, in a spirit of loving care, "adopt" an Native elder, becoming a sustaining presence in their senior years. For $75 you can donate a great big box of food items and necessities to an elderly artisan in need. Please see their web site at www.anelder.org.