19th May 2000
For those of you with a lingering interest in DisneyWorld, I have sprinkled visual documentation of my life-changing experience throughout the text below. I’d also like to share some wonderful letters that have come flying through the cyber-mist in the past few months. I love sharing them because they let you know that we are all a part of a continuing wave of stir and possibility.
Sandra of Maine…
Beautiful concert in Portland, ME. You bring a new maturity to your music and middle age. The core values of the sixties come through. There is a steel shank of strength with a melodic overtone. Thanks for reminding us who we are; and that there are still battles to be fought for basic civil rights for all of us.
(Love that image of the “steel shank”. Makes me sit up straight! The Portland concert was a great pleasure for me because it benefited Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the New England legal organization that has led the charge in the successful battle for the first gay civil union law in America.)
Tuckey from Maryland…
I really loved your links to so many other musicians of interest to the women’s community. It’s both generous and helpful and a huge step toward your goal of having more of these sites interconnected, or at least cross-referenced.
(Not to go on like a burnt boot but… I am convinced that linking one to another is the best way for those of us who honor Women’s Music to create a presence for it on the Web. Please stop by my Connexions Page.)
Marcy from Indiana…
… I have to honestly say that I had forgotten what the experience of hearing you in person was like. Your concert last night (in Indianapolis) was astounding. I can hardly express how moved I was. I used to listen to your music constantly, but over the years things got in the way and other things intruded and somehow I lost the thread… Once again I have been reminded, but somehow your music seems bigger, fuller, more lush and more energized, or maybe I’m just more open, more able to allow it to get all the way in and touch me. I guess that happens when one gets older – the insignificant drops away and you really hear and see what was always there but you never really noticed.
(This is the power of music….to touch our souls and remind us of who we are. I am deeply honored to be a student of this Muse. )
El from California…
I first heard you perform at Full Moon in SF and have been following you ever since. Thanks for the voice you have given to many thoughts and feelings of us all. Naming is framing and a way to understand. Understanding leads to action. You and your music never fail to move me to passion. (The reason I continue to call what I do “Women’s Music” is because I think the phrase has organizing principles imbedded in it which include celebration and empowerment. Various websites like Oxygen and i-village are cropping up on the web and they describe themselves as “women’s sites’. This is also significant. What are these sites celebrating? What are they empowering? I am mulling and roiling around in all this. More later.)
Elizabeth of Massachusetts…
