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This is the slideshow /documentary about the making of "I Am Mermaid."

or you can go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tl0HcjXtjk

Please - all ye who lurk - pleeeeease tell your friends, link me, visit You Tube, rate this, embed it in your blog or ask someone who blogs to embed it (ask me if you don't yet know how to do it). I want people to see this because I worked hard on it and because I haven't ever seen it done before. I want people to know what is possible.

Thank you for your support.

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I just heard. I am crying.


Maxine Feldman and I went to the same college and shared stories of living in the same dormitory and having the same major in college- some 25 years apart. She told me stories of what it was like to the first openly butch student to break the dress code at Emerson College by wearing overalls into the scene shop. She was proud of me that I had started the first lesbian student organization at our school and that I often worked as the only woman on an all male tech crew. She was grateful to have blazed a trail and made a difference.

Maxine was my long crew co-ordinator in the Belly Bowl when I was a new kid fest worker in 1989. She was gruff and loud and butch and proud and I loved her immediately.

My heart goes out to her partner and family.

I look forward to grieving as I always do - through quilting. As Roar has announced the change in next year's quilt to be "Amazon Womon Rise", I will cry into the cloth and remember with love and fondness the best times that we had together. I will remember her, as I have each year since I heard her voice, when I rise as the amazon that I am.

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I hope it's not too late to say - Thank you, Maxine.

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Ruth Barrett wrote to Kay Gardener, upon Kay's death:

" I had to call Maxine today, Kay, and tell her that you died. How can anyone do that? She loved you so much. I told Max that several years ago you had asked me to facilitate your service if anything ever happened to you. Maxine asked me if I would sing Amazon at the service. You were the first person to hear it, and give her encouragement for it."

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This photograph was taken on the land. You know. The Land. Home. The annual family reunion. Mecca. Michfest. I had been, of course, asked to dress as an insect. What can one do under such circumstances? Refuse? I think not. The only thing to do was to meet the challenge head on with a hoop skirt and some tulle.

So there I was - dressed in yellow stripes in order to promote the 2nd Annual Spelling Bee (the first annual will forever be commemorated by the Mighigan Womyn's Music Festival T-shirt.) I was walking around creating a buzz - "hoop"-ing it up - pollinating with the people - when all of a sudden I spotted the sign in front of the Over 40s Tent (Home to the new Oh Fo Art Gallery and The Festival Quilt.)

As you well know, I am a quilter in real life.

In a flash second (which I found hilarious) my worlds collided. I mean WHAT are the chances that a quilter would spontaneously find herself dressed as a bee while holding a "Quilting Bee" sign?

Michigan Magic, my friends. I am telling you. Magic.

Mmmmmm. More later. For now - I go to sleep happy to have finished my first day in three years as a homeschooling mother. The day could not have gone better if I had written a script for it. I am blessed.


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