Using One’s Hands to Create and Meditate She turned to a long-time hobby, the tooling of leather, not long after the sudden death of her dear friend, Sister Phyllis Gembarosky. It was a way to work through the grief and to make something beautiful.
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She moved into the craft room at St. Louise Convent in the corner where Sister Phyllis had made her own colorful painting creations.
pounding of designs into the leather is a meditation after days spent caring for others living on St. Louise campus.
In this room, Corrine Giel, SCN, finds comfort and inspiration, playing her favorite music, and plying leather to create pieces to be given away as gifts. The feel of the leather, the careful and methodical laying out of an idea and then translating it into something real through the
The Director of Pittsburgh Campus Services for 13 years, Sister Corrine was an educator much of her life both as a teacher and principal. It was after many years as an educator and principal that she picked back up the art form that she had first learned as a high school junior.
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