More Than a Box

Phil, along with 64 other members of the Northwest Corner Woodworkers Association (NCWA), has made a beautiful handcrafted wooden box that will go to a young patient at Seattle Children's Hospital who is dealing with a serious illness. 

Each unique box will house the Beads of Courage that a child's health care providers will give her or him to mark milestones in the treatment plan. The program is said to help "decrease illness-related distress, increase the use of positive coping strategies, help children find meaning in illness, restore a sense of self in children coping with serious illness... [and] provides something tangible the child can use to tell about their experience during treatment or after."

Phil's lovely box is made of maple and sapele wood (see it close up in the extra photo). You can see many of the other boxes and their makers on his blip here. What a wonderful use of their skills this project has been!

(I apologize for my lack of participation recently, due to  intensive work on  two complex works by J.S. Bach, in German for the June 3 Whatcom Chorale concert, and deeply delving into genealogy research.  I'm heading 3,000 miles east on Saturday to have time with the newly-discovered first cousin I wrote about earlier this year.)



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