Diane and Connie couldn’t easily get their wheelchairs down to the main ballroom so they sat up on the landing where they could watch and listen. Maria joined them, she and Connie have become good friends, and talk easily with one another. Connie has been greatly affected by your gifts of wool and your letters, she is working hard to knit things for other people – scarves and mittens.

She told Maria that she wants to make baby hats for newborns at the Albany Medical Center, she is looking for baby wool. If anyone has some, that would be a timely gift for her, this work has given shape and meaning to her day, she is mostly confined to her chair due to back and lung issues. You can write her at Connie, The Mansion, 11 S. Union St., Cambridge, N.Y., 12816. She says she will eventually answer every letter she gets.

She will, too.

I’m grateful that Maria is joining Red and I, she is very natural at talking to people and using her intuition to find connections – just like Red.

Connie is busier than ever, and knitting up a storm. She lights up when she sees Red or Maria and both are attached to her. Diane wanted to get up and cross the room, she saw a newcomer sitting alone and wanted to keep her company.