01/20/2010: "She Went Out There and Bloody Did It"

Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle died today and I have been playing a youtube retrospective of her work in memorium. There are so many beautiful songs, performed with her sister Anna and her children Rufus and Martha Wainwright. My favorite is The Log Driver's Waltz from the national film board animated short of the same name.

http://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/

I read Kate's obituary in The Spectator this morning, and was moved, not so much by the list of her achievements, as by the parting words of her son.

"When inevitably I read today in the papers that my mother lost her battle with cancer last night, I am filled with an immense desire to add that this battle, though lost, was tremendously fruitful during these last 3 1/2 years of her life. Yes, it was all too brief, but as I was saying to her sister Anna last night while sitting by her body after the struggle had ceased, there is never enough time, and she, my amazing mother with whom everyone fell in love, went out there and bloody did it."

Three morals in this story:

1. There is never enough time.
2. It is in our nature to be fruitful.
3. Go out there and bloody do it.

Yours with creativity and imagination,
Darlene