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The Sap Gene
If you've read my Too Much, Texas novels, BETWEEN HEAVEN AND TEXAS and FROM HERE TO HOME, you already know that the women in Mary Dell Templeton's family suffer from The Fatal Flaw - an unfortunate tendency for these otherwise sensible women to, "at some point, and sometimes at many points, allow lust and biology to trump morality and reason". As you can imagine, this causes the Tudmore-Templeton women no end of trouble.
A reader who just finished those books just wrote me a little story about her own family's "Fatal Flaw" - something they call The Sap Gene. Though the consequences of this condition aren't quite as dire as those that Mary Dell and her family wrangle with, this is a weakness I'm sure that many of us can relate to so I thought I'd share the story. Enjoy!
"My mother taught herself to sew and raised 4 daughters, teaching them all to sew. We were in 4H and won lots of awards so it was no secret that we were a sewing household. Soon neighbors and church friends were asking my mother to do sewing and mending for them.
Once we "girls" were out of the house, she began quilting. One of her early projects caused her a lot of trouble and as we often do, she tucked it away for another day. After a couple of attempts at finishing the quilt she decided it was 'too much' and tucked it in a bag and dropped it off at the local thrift store.
Sunday morning at coffee after church a friend of hers dashed up, bag in hand and said, "Look what I found at the thrift store! Can you finish it for me?"
Yes it was her quilt. She took it home never telling the lady the story behind the quilt. Our family has the inability to say "No" when asked to help. We call it the 'Sap Gene' on our DNA. You would call it our Fatal Flaw."
A reader who just finished those books just wrote me a little story about her own family's "Fatal Flaw" - something they call The Sap Gene. Though the consequences of this condition aren't quite as dire as those that Mary Dell and her family wrangle with, this is a weakness I'm sure that many of us can relate to so I thought I'd share the story. Enjoy!
"My mother taught herself to sew and raised 4 daughters, teaching them all to sew. We were in 4H and won lots of awards so it was no secret that we were a sewing household. Soon neighbors and church friends were asking my mother to do sewing and mending for them.
Once we "girls" were out of the house, she began quilting. One of her early projects caused her a lot of trouble and as we often do, she tucked it away for another day. After a couple of attempts at finishing the quilt she decided it was 'too much' and tucked it in a bag and dropped it off at the local thrift store.
Sunday morning at coffee after church a friend of hers dashed up, bag in hand and said, "Look what I found at the thrift store! Can you finish it for me?"
Yes it was her quilt. She took it home never telling the lady the story behind the quilt. Our family has the inability to say "No" when asked to help. We call it the 'Sap Gene' on our DNA. You would call it our Fatal Flaw."
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