Volume 15 Issue 1
Spring 2009
Journey Home Celebrates
Ten Years of Service
From the Heart of the
Journey Home Inc.
994 Long Pond Road, Rochester, NY
Director
14626
585-225-1240
I am sitting on the office floor at
Journey Home surrounded by
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galore. In my flurry of thoughts
I do not know how or where to
is a tapestry as well. Many
begin to thank the millions of
people s lives will be woven into
people who have touched my
the pattern of love created by the
finest of threads and the greatest of
heart and the heart of Journey
volunteers and the families who
care. This, my friends, is your
Home all of these many years. It
will share their lives with us. In
Journey Home. May you all know
pains me to think that I might
the years to come, each life will
the love that surrounds our home
forget someone, so suffice it to
create the tapestry of our home."
is because of you and because of
say that, all of you, and you
you; many have had a blessed
know who you are, are in my
As our tapestry presents itself
journey to their ultimate home.
heart. Through tears and
today, in 2009, it may be a little
Here s to celebrating 10 years and
through memories I embrace
tattered and worn, the colors may
many more years to come! In
each one of you for it is because
have begun to fade, yet the design
peace and much gratitude, your
of all of you that this dream was
and detail so lovingly sewn,
Director,
made a reality back on Mother s
remains. So many beautiful souls
Tracey
Day weekend, May 1999.
have graced our doors from the
volunteers, the residents and their
A special note of gratitude goes out to my
While reading one of our
families to the curious who "just
loving husband and patient children who
original newsletters, from 1997,
stopped in" to look around.
have for years put up with, " I ll be home
I came across an article which
in just a little while". I could have not
done this without you!
explained so well our name-
In the four years prior to our
Tapestry. "A tapestry is an
opening, so many hands and hearts
intricately woven fabric. The
helped us to plan, build, move, and
making of one takes many years
prepare our home to open. In ten
and only the finest of threads
years we have ministered to 274
are used. Once made, after
persons and their families, 300
dedicated hours of love and toil,
plus volunteers, 50 plus staff and
a tapestry is hung in the most
board members, multiple nurses,
important of places, for all to
social workers and doctors and
see. Behind all of the labor lies
hundreds in the community
within, a story, the story of
surrounding us. You see a
one s life and their
tapestry can only be built with the
experiences." " Journey Home
