TheBanyanTree: Blue Feather

[Roger Pye]

Sharon Mack wrote:

>A while back someone (maybe Sherrie?) told a story about a woman who was
>part of the original set on the Banyan tree...a very spiritual woman and
>a feather.  I am slightly foggy right now but I remember writing back
>and telling the person I would watch for the feather...well, I found it
>this morning (the feather) as I walked the dogs and was praying a letter
>to my children...I recognized that it was a very spiritual find and I
>would love to be reminded of the story if anyone else remembers.
>


As YB would probably put it 'Honey, thanks fer the sentiments but 
spiritual I ain't, I just does my own thang!'

I guess I'm not really qualified to tell the story, I only 'knew' 
Youngblood from 1997 and there are people on TBT who were with her long, 
long before. Alice for starters who was pretty much her lifelong friend 
and looked after her so well towards the end.

YB contracted cancer. 'Doing her own thang' she defied it from the word 
go to her very last breath. Every day at the beginning and every few 
later on she sent her journal entry from the Defiance Diaries to the 
Spoon (Cafe), detailing her experiences. To read about them was 
memorable, frightening, saddening, uplifting by turns.

At the very, very end her ashes were ceremonially scattered in selected 
places around the world by her friends.

To me, YB was inspiration, humour, sheer doggedness in the face of Life, 
courage, a million other things. She lived, breathed and died practising 
unconditional love for everyone who came within her reach. Out of her 
living and dying came what I call the Legend of the Blue Feather. I 
think most of us on Spoon and TBT have received one or more in times of 
need or in recognition of some plea we have made to the Universe (God, 
if you like). Robin and I certainly have. My website, 
earth-careonline.com, which is woefully behind the times I'm sorry to 
say, is headed by a blue feather, my email alias from that site is Blue 
Feather.

I miss her very much.

The email below is one she sent to us which expresses her courage in the 
face of adversity.

woodcat


> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:56:29 +0800
> To: Woodcat <rnr at srm.blamac.com.au>
> From: Youngblood Brasket <stargazr at IO.COM> (by way of Woofess 
> <pearson at iinet.net.au>)
> Subject: [VAGUERY] sitrep 09mar99
>
> ye olde stargazr has been missing in action for a few days and folks is
> startin' to panic.  got all kinds of mail messages in my inbox wantin' to
> know why i ain't made a personal report.
>
> please forward this reassurance to all who know ye.
>
> when i drop over dead, i promise that someone will let you know.
>
> now.
>
> dee flew in from oregon friday night late.  too late for me to see her.
> axel fetched her at the a/p and took her to his house.  they came over
> first thing sattidy mawnin' and the partying began.  spooners emu paul,
> jeri xiques, and maria gibson were here by 1030.  we hung out here for a
> while and then moved to axel's house, where we were joined by
> rollingthunder5 (a/k/a spooner bluemoon) and holly waldren, lisa lyle, and
> my goddaughter jessie; also marion, axel's girlfriend, and even the second
> wife came by (ruth ann), and axel's kiddoes, max and megan.
>
> it was a great family kind of day, with folks wandering in and out, doing
> this and that, and always lots of lively conversation going on in the
> living room.  axel has a great couch where I was able to stretch out.  i
> folded about 2130 so they dumped me here and went out partying.  went down
> to seabrook to get some great seafood at the classic cafe.
>
> sunday was a repeat of saturday, only a smaller group here a r&rh.  we 
> went
> to brekkie at the bizzy bee and then paul had to leave to take maria 
> to the
> airport and drive himself back to burnett, texas, and jeri headed for
> wimberley.
>
> yesterday dee and alice and i hung around here.  i was really pretty tired
> by then and didn't feel like doing anything.  at one point in the early
> afternoon i decided to go lay down and i had only been on my back for 
> a few
> minutes when i started thinking about the classic cafe and their wonderful
> chicken tenders ... there is no chicken tenders like these anywhere 
> else in
> the world, folks ... and the blood rushed to my head and all i could think
> about was chicken tenders, chicken tenders, chicken tenders so i leapt 
> from
> my sickbed and said, 'girls, we are off to seabrook.'
>
> we gorged ourselves on the most succulent chicken tenders known to man and
> i had one of those baby cokes in a bottle and came back to r&rh feeling
> completely satisfied.
>
> i have three days to recover before the wiz arrives.  the wiz, road dawg,
> johnson city, brandi, and secret agent star from tennessee.
>
>
>
> yb
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> "what the winner don't know, the gambler understands"
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