oh my people....we did it....
I am so grateful to you all, that I can't find my words. When that happens, I often turn to Mary Oliver, whose beautiful lines never fail to hold what needs holding...
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
thank you.
thank you.
thank you...
I'll be in touch real soon about getting your goodies to you. Looking forward to seeing many of you next week at Cultivate! sweet dreams!
in gratitude and community,
Katherine
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Hey. Thank you...honestly. This is so generous of you, and means so much to all of us that are working hard to make Cultivate happen. To show my thanks, I'm going to send you the above, plus one of my original one of a kind "word|bird" mixed media collages on wood, 4"x4".
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You inspire me. No, really...you do. To prove it, I am going to make a dance for/about you/because of you. And I'll perform it as part of Cultivate, after telling the audience, from stage, how none of this would be happening without your generous support. And I will video it and send it to you. And then you will know how very much you mean to me.
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Now you've gone and done it. You know...to show my deep gratitude, I am going to make you a one of a kind improvisationally designed and pieced art quilt. It will take me a few months to make, but it will be worth the wait. You'll be part of the design process, and I can even incorporate some fabrics that are special to you. Because you are special to me. Thank you...
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Creator Amy Chavasse on August 14, 2011
Congratulations Katherine. and thank you for the poem.... only you would think of that. I need some grass and grasshoppers now, but the rain is pouring down-- which is sweet in its own way.
Hopefully I can clear a space in my schedule next year for Cultivate, as I surely do need some cultivation!!!!