Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove-off 4 abit

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: My guru always said
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 03:45 AM

So good to hear that you're finding your treasures Maeve, each item must feel so special. Positive thoughts!
x

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 02:55 AM

Several months back one of the wooden buildings in a community centre burnt to the ground.

A week after the fire when (all) the rubble had been removed I found a ribbon among the little bits of broken glass & metal. I'm looking at it now - it's a bit grubby, but unburnt.

sandra

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 10:20 PM

Maeve, I wish you both many more times like that. Each item you find will be a piece of your heart reclaimed, together.

But also, I look forward to your sharing with us (if you wish to do so), the new memories as you make them, together, from the new start that also is happening. For life does go on, and what you do each day becomes the treasured memory you will prize.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 08:49 PM

Thanks, gnu.

I met Truelove down at our home site this afternoon. We spent three hours picking odds and ends out of the top layer of ruin; thawed a bit after the torrential rain over the last couple of days.

He found a few singed, damp letters written to me by my mother and father and other family members! We also pulled out a few kitchen tools, bits and pieces of fabric, whole and broken special ceramic tiles, a few articles of clothing, several pieces of lace...the strangest things survived.

I felt ill after all the digging through ruin, but even so, it was good working together as we are accustomed to do.

Goodnight,

maeve

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 06:06 PM

Good to hear things are moving forward, m.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 03:09 PM

Well Mary...I figured you were just drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds.

We're doing ok, thanks. TL has returned to work and I'm working on the inventory and reclaiming various pieces of our lives.

maeve

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 01:24 PM

Hi Maeve. How are you today? Didn't mean to usurp your thread.
SINS

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 01:23 PM

No WiFi; no phone connection.
I really had to cut back on luxuries last year. No cable TV - buit I never watched it anyway. But I do have electricity and central heating.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 01:18 PM

Thanks! And can you skype people that don't skype?

Sorry for drift Maeve, still walking along with you!

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 12:18 PM

Skype can be used just to speak to another person but there is also a video facility, if you have a webcam set up. A lot of laptops nowadays have this and, if not, they are fairly cheap to buy and easy to set up.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 10:33 AM

Webcam works with Skype, Hils

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 08:24 AM

You need a webcam for skype??

We've just set up free calls to the USA which will be starting soon (I'll need to be able to tell the time properly at that point), but it'd be lovely to see people too!

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 08:21 AM

Do you have wifi, SINS? I'll try to remember to bring my laptop. We has Skype!

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 10:29 PM

Only for the phone connection. PC to PC is free. Kendall and I use it when I'm in the UK. It's not always totally reliable, for some reason it sometimes doesn't connect and we have had it cut out a couple of times, but it is good when it's working.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 02:09 PM

Hmmmm... must check out this Skype thing. I thought you had to pay for it???

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 02:04 PM

I just ten minutes ago, Skyped with my daughter for the first time. So good to hear her voice and see her face.

Thing is needs a good mic for sound to work well. So definitely doable. And I would love to horn in on house concerts on State side. Just to listen.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 01:17 PM

Well, if anyone else who is going has a laptop it isn't difficult to set up Skype and it is free.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 11:18 AM

If Jacqui, our computer genius in residence, were going to be here Saturday, she could set up SKYPE and everyone could hear Maeve singing. She has to go to the GRAMMIES though. Another time...

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 10:55 AM

I too want to hear Maeve singing!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:31 AM

So good to hear that you're singing Maeve, wish I could be at Deb's house concert to hear you again. Still got the song you emailed me, but I guess others have that too.

I could do with some exercise, walking alongside you across the pond. {{{{Maeve & TL}}}}

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: GUEST,julia l
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 11:39 PM

Hello Maeve- so glad to see these posts and know the healing is beginning. I have a number of source tapes which I think may be copies of those you had. Some of them came from Muff. You are welcome to look over my collection and make copies of anything I have, printed or audio. I also have way too much quilt fabric,etc. which I am happy to share.
I will be away until March 1, but perhaps we could get together in the spring (it is coming you know... Brigid's Day next week!)
best- Julia ([e-mail])

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 06:21 PM

If there's singing after the Deb C. house concert, I might give it a run through, hmmm?

m

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 06:11 PM

Oh, it sounds like a lovely time! How nice for all of you!
Maeve, sometime I'm going to need to hear that New Hampshire song, you know. When you're ready!

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 04:02 PM

We were priviledged to hear Maeve sing that song - it was lovely. Please keep with it melove - your talent should be out in the open.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 03:17 PM

Who you callin' "kept"? Some of us run a farm, wee and scorched though it is.

Mary, I sang "New Hampshire Spring", a poem from several years ago that turned into a song a week or so before the fire. Ask me sometime; I'll give it a try again. I'm trying to keep the singing going.

maeve

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 02:27 PM

Unfortunately I work for a living. You kept women are free to play all the time.
WHIIINE!
Maybe next time, Maeve. Just good to know you are singing.
Mary

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 08:32 AM

Good - see if you can tempt TL to come with you next time.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 08:55 PM

Aw, pshaw... How very nice to arrive back to my Truelove after visiting Jacqui and Kendall (Mary- next time?) and then my mum...to find such nice posts here. Thank you all.

It was a delight to visit with the Morse team, and fun to be the recipient of various sewing, crochet, and knitting tools, handwork books, and luscious yarns. Thank you, Jacqui. Kendall produced one bit of wisdom after another, between stories and some noodling on the guitar. Thanks, Kendall.

I'll be baaack.

maeve

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: ragdall
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 08:17 PM

maeve,
I wish that good wishes, good thoughts and love could restore what you lost. I can only hope that the life that you and TL build from the ashes and few treasures you saved will be so much better than you can ever imagine now.

Love and hugs,
rags

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 06:49 PM

Still thinking of you here.... still plodding alongside... albeit a bit breathless, slow down and take a break!

LTS

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 03:54 PM

She has a lovely voice. I assume she was smiling as well. How nice for all.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 03:16 PM

Bet you were all smiling. Nice.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 03:01 PM

Maeve has just left the premises, having stayed longer than she really planned to.

We got a real treat when she sang one of her songs for us and enjoyed a good long talk about everything and nothing. It was a real pleasure to have her here for a while.

This time we kept her away from the garage!

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 01:15 PM

LOL, gnu.

Did you make it down to the Morse household this morning? Did you survive the garage?

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 10 - 11:32 AM

maeve... L'il Bit's feather is still attached to my old monitor and the hawk feather is still over the mantle.

Ahhhh... no connection between the two, folks. >;-)

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jan 10 - 10:03 AM

One of your poems, handwritten, is still on my fridge. I read it every day and think of you. One little piece survives.
Mary

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 20 Jan 10 - 06:41 AM

Still here, my dear.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 20 Jan 10 - 06:27 AM

Gnu- Yes, you nailed it in one.

Side-walking friends- Thank you. I'll respond to your thoughtful posts as I am able.

I forgot to list the four very special mountain dulcimers that are also gone. I also left off the album of our wedding photographs...found by Truelove under a couple of boards in the ruin. All of those photos survived, as did our devotion to one another.

Headlights, beacons, rivers, walking alongside; all are useful analogies. The artifacts and many of the other treasures were chosen to eventually form the heart of a folk life museum here...a Joseph Campbell school in in modest form.

Thank you, friends.

maeve

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: Janie
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 10:15 PM

Oh maeve.




The artifacts and material representations of nearly all, or possibly even all, that matters to each and both of you - not simply ruined, but gone. It must stop the heart sometimes, and often most unexpectedly.   It must sometimes take away the breath.

And yet, rather than resist that awful grief, and thus be completely beaten by it, it seems from your posts you are doing all that you can to let it flow through and over you, finding that the heart beats again, and sooner, and the breath breathes again, and more deeply, than if you attempted to construct a dam to hold it back.

Friends, family, and each of you to one another, are as beacons and lighthouses, buoys and life-lines, and shallower eddies where you can pause and take respite. You and Truelove have suddenly plunged into an unmarked gorge on the river that is your life. No way of knowing how rough, nor how long this section of the river might be. What is clear, is that you fully anticipate that sooner or later, you will emerge into a calmer section once again, and when you get to that next, smoother section, there will be much that is familiar, and also much that is new.

Hope I don't presume too much in writing this. I'm not one of the lighthouses - just a hiker on the shore with a little LED headlamp on.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 09:44 PM

No one can or should try to fix it for us. Just walk alongside for a little way.

That's the Maeve I know and love so dearly. I give thanks that you are writing.

BTW the item I mailed you voice-records as well, if any of what you and Truelove need/want to document can be done via voice notes to transcribe later. (PM if you need any help using it.)

Oh, and prayers-- you still have those every week without fail, as well as my own personal prayers every time I think of you.

A "month." Weird, eh?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 09:04 PM

maeve, if instead of a fire, you and truelove had been found murdered in your home, all of the objects left intact, our grief would be different by several orders of magnitude.

The objects a story, pass on traditions, and are mnemonic tools, but as you describe and replace things that were lost, you'll be remembering what they replaced. You two are still here, and healthy, and that is what counts.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 08:39 PM

Not walking but trudging...a foot or two of snow. But as long as you like I am nearby.
Mary

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 08:00 PM

maeve,

2 songs with audio of you, not gone (in my email, dear one)

We are here...

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:20 PM

For as long as you want us here...........

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:15 PM

Dear m... that must have been heart wrenching to write and to post but hopefully cathartic.

You said, "Just walk alongside for a little way."

Well, for me... as far as I can... hopefully all the way.

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: mg
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:09 PM

Tragic losses..

But still here:

You
True Love
Dreams of Adoption still I hope
and Under All is the Land.

And Over All is the Sky. mg

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: s&r
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:00 PM

Your last paragraph is the most moving sentiment I can remember reading. Thankk you for recognising the concern and interest of your friends

Stu

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 06:51 PM

One month ago our house burned to the ground. It took our clothing, antiques, family heirlooms, musical instruments, pantry full of food, hand and power tools, artwork, books, textile collections, my grandmother's hand cards, drop spindle, loom, spinning wheel, pottery collections and thousands of carefully selected cds, cassettes, records, songbooks, and books.

Paintings, handwork, sculptures, pottery, journals, poems, and songs went up in the flames. Baby clothes passed down in the family, childrens' clothes, cradles, and dreams of adoption...burned. My only photographs of the child who became like my own child; gone.

Piano, melodeon, bagpipes, really fine chanter, three guitars including the Apollonio, an Apollonio laud belonging to a friend, two violins, bodhran, mando-uke, a harp gifted by another friend, the penny whistles including an O'Riordan, all of the source recordings from all over Scotland and Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, and Maine; gone. All of the songs and poems I made over the years waiting for final polish; gone.

All of our seed supplies for the upcoming year, our 50+ grafted infant fruit trees, financial records- gone. All of my growing notes on different crops over the years, all of the unusual seeds passed on to me by my father; gone.

Our written and photographic records intended to help us write of our lives on our farm, along with the 200 year old house that sheltered us for the last ten years; gone. Love letters my husband and I wrote each other during our long courtship and during 12 years of marriage, every piece of his poetry and songs; gone.

The cherry corner cupboard from my parents, the Cuban mahogany turned wood pieces and hammered copper bowls made by my father's father, the child's chair my mother's father made, all that my husband had from his family; gone.

We are grateful for many kindnesses both here and in Maine. God has lent us strength and graced us with such lovely friends and strangers offering practical help and laughter amidst tears. We have my grandmother's quilt that I grabbed in the dark to wrap around my Truelove on that cold night. We have one drawing found in the ashes the next day. We have a few pieces of jewelry scratched from the ruin by a firefighter. Most of all, we have one another and many family friends and friends reaching out to us.

I wanted to write of our loss in a way that might enable our friends here to understand some of our pain. We will heal. No one can or should try to fix it for us. Just walk alongside for a little way. Thank you.

With gratitude,

maeve

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: maeve
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 09:51 AM

Thank you for your kind thoughts, folks. You are appreciated.

Susan- Thanks for your concern- no one here has made me feel I have hoops through which I must jump. I simply want to regain the use of language to help me understand and grow from this experience.

The weekend was spent taking care of family business. I suspect today is a time to rest and gather strength for dealing with insurance matters here. When my brain quits I'll tackle the charred fabrics. I want that smell out of the apartment.

maeve

Subject: RE: Tribulation/ Blessings Maeve & Truelove
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 08:30 AM

Here is your daily


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