This time last week, here in Southern Connecticut, so many of us changed our profile picture to a form of green and white to honor the 26 lives lost in neighboring Newtown on that sad December day 13 years ago. Many of us were reminded that this was how we first met, during that nationwide, heck, worldwide effort to comfort the children of Sandy Hook as they went back to school. Our chapter here in Southern CT started the year after, with a network of kind hearts who had come together to give kids a hug when they needed it most.
Who would have guessed that on that eve of that anniversary, there would be another school shooting and I’d be again writing to another school’s leader to offer love the best way we know how, with our knitting needles and crochet hooks. This has become our Monroe/Trumbull chapter’s latest mission: to give students of Brown University that extra hug when they return to school in mid-January. We have arranged to a counseling center at school to distribute them. We have to work fast, so we need your help with this: please send young-adult-sized scarves and blankets (and 9-inch squares) by January 14th to the address below. Please only use the school colors: dark brown, bright red, and white.
Binky Patrol Southern CT
46 Belle Vale Street
Monroe, CT 06468
Please let the students of Brown University that people from all over the country are thinking about them as they return to school. What a symbol of love and support it would be if we could get chapters from all over the country to send at least one!
