August

I checked Ancestry.

Looking at the dates my kinfolk died, I saw none of my direct ancestors were lost in the pandemic of 1918.

I wonder, how it impacted them? Did they lose loved ones? Did they stay home more? Did the great illness shake them?

And then I sit, listening to the WSM AM radio, sewing scraps into quilt blocks. I can’t help but think that’s what Ma Stevens would have done too.