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Always Establish Who's At FaultBy Maria Elkins
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When I read the description of the Proverbial Challenge, the phrase that captured my imagination was that these quilts could show "things your grandmother would say." Immediately my mind flew to one of our family's favorite sayings. "Always establish who's at fault." Well okay, my grandmother didn't say that, but my father did.
It began back when my sister, my two brothers and I were all teenagers. We would often end up arguing about small, insignificant things. My father always happened to come into the room just then and he would say with a smile, "Oh yes, we must be sure that we always establish who's at fault!" As the youngest of seven siblings, he had learned the value of living in peace and harmony, extending grace and goodwill towards others, and looking at the world with humor and wit. His amusing comments taught us the futility and foolishness of blaming, accusing and holding grudges. Years later when I caught my two daughters bickering, the same admonition sprang to my own smiling lips. My kids enjoyed the irony of the phrase and soon it was popping up regularly. But the real fun began when we observed human nature and started adding corollaries. Then we started using them around our friends who quickly adopted them. Now, whenever we catch each other doing one of these things, someone will blurt out one of the rules and before you know it a chorus of people begin laughing and repeating the other ones. |