When Ginny volunteered for Dumpling Day of Service, she also volunteered that she hadn’t made dumplings in a very long time. And that she wasn’t very good at it. So, she began by watching us making the very simplest dumplings and following along. She made many regular dumplings while chatting with her daughter and the rest of the group.
Gradually, her folds started to veer off in a different direction. And her hands produced these in rapid succession:
Her grandson and the rest of the group tried to copy her dumplings, but not one of the others came close to her elegant perfection. For although Ginny hadn’t made these dumplings in decades, she had made thousands of them as a child with her grandmother back in China. Five generations of her family along with the rest of the volunteers connected through her dumplings.
