![](resources/9650704D-722D-416B-8A21-FC1896775429.JPG)
![](resources/972E7A93-3918-4A0D-98EC-597212EB3A16.JPG)
I began making these Irish Blessing prayer cards for certain family members of mine who at the time were experiencing grief and I wanted to reach out in some way. Creating these cards reignited my graduate school fascination for lamination and began making more cards and giving them to people who I intuited would enjoy them.
Cards have been given to: my godfather, aunt,three of my best friends, my mentor, a family friend, my mother, a flower woman painting with watercolors in Millennium Park, a handsome young man sitting on the ground holding a sign on Michigan Ave, the lady who sat across from me on the Red Line and gave money to a man who needed it and a 2-year-old girl on an Amtrak train whose father lost his patience and needed a moment of peace, a soul sister of mine, another soul sister, her mother and grandmother in honor of their late family member, three "Infinite Love" women, a man who worked on the computer next to me at FedEx while I laminated/cut cards, a dear friend and her son in honor of her dad and his grandpa.
![](resources/IMG_5909.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_5910.jpg)
![](resources/kate02.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_7213.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_7210.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_7193.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_7194.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_7211.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_7212.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_7197.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_6793.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_6498.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_6499.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_6500.jpg)
![](resources/IMG_6501.jpg)
![](resources/7EAEB552-D265-464A-9E93-29DAD46B319B.JPG)
![](resources/DD924FC0-7926-4240-AA12-E7B57AD92AA6.JPG)
![](resources/5ABBBE14-4426-4CB2-815B-DEFF568D4B27.JPG)
![](resources/CF9641E1-BB1D-410E-BDA2-281664014990.JPG)
![](resources/E5D0C4FD-04F2-4F4A-9BBB-B6C253A64B52.JPG)