Weekend Preview

A few years ago, I bought this book at a Bargain Bookstore, started reading that day and had it finished by the next.  It's fantastic and uplifitng cover to cover.  I knew a little about the AIDS Memorial quilt and the NAMES foundation from school, but never knew anything about Cleve Jones, the man who started the foundation all those years ago.  Hearing the how and why of the mission creation, made it that more memorable and fascinating to me. 

Since then, I've been dying to see the quilt in person.  The NAMES foundation is housed in San Francisco, which means the quilt stays there most of the time.  Every dozen or so years (It's been 16...) the quilt is displayed in Washington DC.  They lay all the panels on the National Mall for all to visit.  The quilt has grown in size since it began and this time they won't be able to display the whole thing. Come Saturday, I'll finally get to see the 38,000 intricately and painstakingly designed panels that are so full of love and memories of survivors and victims of this horrible disease. 

If you're interested visit here, to find more information on the cause and the event.  Then visit here, to find more information on NAMES and the overwhelming work they do.