From My Hands to Your Face

Laura DeMaisBerg
3 min readApr 3, 2020

I feel so much different today than I did last Friday. My heart feels lighter. My mind feels calmer. Amazingly, I feel like the world is going to be okay. Last week I came across a group on Facebook that was making masks for the frontline workers. I have a sewing machine, I can sew, and at the moment I saw the post I was desperate for something to make me feel better. So I signed up. On Monday afternoon a large ziplock bag with a stack of fabric squares and a few yards of elastic was dropped on my porch. There was a note on the front with clear instructions “Quarantine bag for twelve hours.” So I put it…

Laura DeMaisBerg

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