BS: Katlaughing's Ashes

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 May 14 - 05:44 PM

That's what is needed, knowing when the time is right.

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: ClaireBear
Date: 12 May 14 - 05:35 PM

I still have my vial of them and have arranged to do something with them, with someone else who knew Kat and would like to do the something with me. But I don't yet know what, or where, or when -- just that it will be the right thing, when it happens.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bill D
Date: 12 May 14 - 04:59 PM

I still have a smallish amount... held in reserve just in case someone wants to--- well, whatever.

PM or post if inspiration strikes.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 May 14 - 11:03 AM

Are there any more ashes in circulation to report about? (Bringing this back to the top).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 May 14 - 01:33 PM

This stage seems to be coming to a close. What's your rush, Garg?

Cordially,
SRS

Yes, they do, but they're gray and you can't see them.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 05 May 14 - 05:27 PM

Beginning to resemble "Piddling Pete"

I have piddled over twelve.... can a "throne of a clone" combine the other 50 OTHERS together?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

If a thread posts to the MC....and is deleated.....does it still continue to exitst?

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 05 May 14 - 02:11 PM

I have been away from the 'Cat for a good while - health issues.

Although we never met "in the flesh", so to speak, she became a dear friend.

May she rest in the arms of the Great Mother, and know the All Father's smile.

Ar dheis De go rabh a anam.

Till next time, Kat - love from Bryn, and heartfelt condolences to all who loved her.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 10:27 PM

Thank you, Janie. How wonderful! The tiny bit that is in my yard at the edge of the creek balances the portion that is traveling to the Gulf of Mexico. It's good to travel, but it's nice to stay put for a while also.

Maggie

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: gnu
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 10:25 PM

Wonderful. Bless you all.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Janie
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 10:14 PM

I'm not sure, LEJ. Spaw may know and when I call Roger I'll ask. I hope so.

Kat hiked high and low in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as high in the Balsam and Pisgah mountains in the southern North Carolina part of the Blue Ridge. Her ashes are dancing on the tops of carpets of spring ephemerals, tripping down small mountain springs and rills, and roaring over waterfalls on their way to the Mississippi and the Atlantic. They are also cavorting on the early spring updrafts on mountaintops where trees are just starting to green their buds, from places with spectacular views of surrounding mountains and the basins that both divide them and tie them together in these ancient lands.

I have selfishly held on to some small bit of her ashes to scatter among the hills of my own beloved homeland of West Virginia. Don't know when I will scatter those or just where.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 01:54 PM

I hope Janie will fill us in on her progress! Any good side-trips of note?

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 07:43 PM

I wonder if any of her ashes were cast into the Wyoming wind and out across the high plains, the sage brush and prairie grass she loved. A hard and rocky place to call home, but those that do seem never to want to leave it.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: maeve
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 10:30 AM

Thanks to Sinsull and Jacqui sharing, Kat's ashes are also on our farm- in our little memorial garden and in the greening woods in a hidden, lovely hollow by the brook. A wren sings there, and wood thrushes as well...she would have loved it.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 08:09 AM

love xx xx

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 09:05 PM

Thank you for doing this, and thank you for letting us know!

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 07:40 PM

I just want to say, I think this is such an amazing and beautiful thing you all have done for Kat. Not many are lucky enough to have friends like you.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 12:23 PM

I occasionally talked to the the box when it was on my kitchen table, though I wish she'd been able to visit when she was capable of conversation. I was glad to offer one of many pleasant resting places and contribute to her travels.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 12:11 PM

*happy smile"

kat is becoming the well-traveled lady. Janie will (I believe tomorrow) begin a trip thru some nice mountains and leave kat in some special places.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: gnu
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 06:25 AM

Indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Apr 14 - 11:28 PM

A lovely image, Stilly.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Apr 14 - 10:43 PM

Several months ago Bill D sent me a small canister, and I've been waiting to open it. Today I scattered the small container of ashes from katlaughing into the creek behind my house. I wanted the right kind of day - a productive one in the garden, a day when the yard was looking lovely, and in the nice spring weather. Just before the storm that passed over this evening I went out through the back gate and walked through the lovely lush undergrowth under tall slim trees then followed a game trail along the little bluff and scattered the ashes into the creek and down the bluff. A little of kat is at the edge of the yard, but most of this portion is racing through the year-round creek to the Trinity River then down to the Gulf of Mexico. It was lovely to have her here for a while, and to give her one more opportunity to visit a new place.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 10:27 PM

Thanks, Spaw, from me, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Janie
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 09:54 PM

Thanks Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,sins
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 09:52 AM

thanks, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bugsy
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 01:14 AM

What a Wonderful idea.

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: KT
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 12:57 AM

As Ebbie said....heart wrenching. Every time.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 06:28 PM

Ebbie, and others, yeah... sniff.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 04:30 PM

Ahhh...ok then. I'll work with 2 other requests then.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 01:08 PM

Mary and all others.....Roger has been working a lot and long hours so he hasn't gotten the ashes sent out except for the ones going to Bill for the getaway. Sinsull will be getting some directly from Roger a bit later as will Janie and myself. So the Maine folks will all be covered (unintentional joke there).


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 11:49 AM

Mary...It shall be done

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 11:08 AM

For reasons unknown I am a guest on my home computer. I will sort it out later but for now, I won't be at the Getaway but I am sure Jacqui will be willing to bring Kat to Maine where she will go on the grand tour, attend endless song circles and continue to be loved and cherished.
I still cry.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 10:33 PM

It is really amazing to see all the tributes and offers to share in this effort to send our friend and long-time voice of reason & compassion to so mnay places she would have loved to visit.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 10:25 PM

Yup. There is kind of a hollow echo in some places where Kat used to be. And in this tough year, it is all the harder to have that generous ear and wise counsel absent.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Crowhugger
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 09:08 PM

Me too, Ebbie.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 09:00 PM

Oh my. Seeing this thread title gave me such a wrench.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 06:37 PM

Got it...

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 05:38 PM

I sent you a note.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 04:27 PM

For those who will be at the Getaway, please see me when you arrive and we will work out a plan. I have created smaller 'containers' for those who wish to convey our Kat to various events.

Also, if there is still anyone who was not included in Roger's original distribution and who would really like to participate in sending Kat to all corners of the world, PM me..or post here... and I'm sure that, with Roger's permission, I can arrange to send a bit your way for a private ceremony. Many people have personal ideas of appropriate gestures, and I believe I can divide the 'extra' to accommodate various ideas.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Aug 13 - 06:28 PM

Thank you, Roger! I've been wondering how you've been. I still think on Camp Runamuck quite fondly. I hope you stick around a bit. Or at least lurk.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: rangeroger
Date: 26 Aug 13 - 02:54 PM

I have absolutely been away too long. Not even lurking.
Beautiful words Nathan.
   rr

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: gnu
Date: 26 Aug 13 - 02:14 PM

Too bad Mudcat doesn't have a like button.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Aug 13 - 11:21 AM

occasional OzCatter Canberra Chris has offered to take some of Kat's ashes to the Nariel Creek festival, one of Australia's oldest festivals where other folkie ashes have been scattered in the past.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 25 Aug 13 - 07:11 PM

When a significant member of the Mudcat is lost we are all the loser! With Kat it was even more so! Thanks for playing your part and we will remember youy always, but somehow the Mudcat will never be the same without you! RIP!

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 09:03 PM

And beautiful song, Amergin

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 03:29 PM

I haven't been here in a while and was deeply shocked and saddened to see this thread that Kat has passed. I only knew her like all of you, through this forum. She was a year and a day older than me and we would sometimes Happy Birthday each other when we remembered. One year she was my Santee. I sent her a box of things and as an after thought included a story I wrote about my time in a Catholic orphanage in the 60's. She was very encouraging about it and kept telling me to write a book. Funny how you can know someone only through a forum like this and yet you form a bond. Her bright spirit will be missed around here, but I know she will brighten up where ever she ventures next. Luvyakat. James

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,BlueJay
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 06:08 AM

I rarely post these days, but now I must . KatLaughing was instrumental in me joining The Mudcaat Cafe many yeasrs ago, and I had the priveledge of joining her, (and Roger) at a couple of Mudcat gatherings. Played some songs, if I recall. If anyone helped shaped the identity of The Mudcat Cafe, it was Kat. Probably the most consistent voice advocating folk music that I remember, (other than Spaw, but that's an entirely different story). If some of her ashes could come back to Colorado, I think she'd be pleased. I'd take good care, indeed. Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: GUEST,wilbyhillbilly
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 03:17 PM

I have just returned to Mudcat after waiting six months to be reconnected to the net. I cannot believe that Kat is no longer with us, it was she who made me feel so welcome when I first joined some years ago and trusted me with transferring her dad's songs to disc. My family and I will never forget you Kat, I know your spirit will always be in the wind and one day we will finally meet. Rest in peace.

John Beth and Danny

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 03:14 PM

When in Maine? I am due up to New England...

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 08:04 PM

I'll drop this thought; anyone is free to consider it, or just let it go. Kat was free-spirited enough to enjoy visiting a nude beach, and to mention that in discussion. Should anyone who receives ashes have the convenient opportunity, and be comfortable with it, they might scatter a bit in such a setting.

Subject: RE: BS: Katlaughing's Ashes
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 03:11 PM

Kat is the most kindred and inviting spirit who introduced me to this community. Strong in tenderness and gentle in powerful emotion she inspired kind thoughts and gifts from me without silly second thoughts as to why.
Spaw, you are genius in your sharing ideas, devotion and kindness.