From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V9 #68 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Wednesday, February 13 2008 Volume 09 : Number 068 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy moment Re: [lucy-list] Lucy moment Re: [lucy-list] Lucy moment Re: [lucy-list] Lucy moment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:09:58 -0800 (PST) From: Deb Woodell Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy moment I tried sending this last night, and I didn't see it go through. A longtime friend is in the hospital and we're told he is dying. About 10-11 yrs ago, he was hospitalized while awaiting a heart transplant and wrote about his experiences for my paper, the Phila. Daily News, and there is a poignant Lucy moment in the segment below: FEST COMES TO US I instantly bonded with Bob, a Delaware resident who, like me, is 52 and a Philadelphia Folk Festival junkie. He's been going for 20 consecutive years; I've been going for 35. We mourned that we'd miss the 1997 edition. Almost as a joke, Bob's wife Linda said one day, ``Wouldn't it be nice if the festival could come to us this year?'' ``You know,'' I said, ``that's entirely possible. Let me make a few phone calls. '' I checked with hospital brass to see if they'd allow a visit from festival performers. The answer was a resounding yes. The next call was to dear friend Lisette Bralow, who handles publicity for the music fest. Lis arranged for two acts to visit the day before the festival. Singer/songwriters Lucy Kaplansky and David Olney, guitars in tow, put on an hourlong show for patients, family, friends and staff. Channel 6 covered the event, making us instant stars. We hoped to draw attention to the embarrassing number of people who are not organ donors. == The way to find the real 'world' is not merely to measure and observe what is outside us, but to discover our own inner ground. -- Thomas Merton == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:55:33 -0500 From: jlustick@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy moment Actually it did come through last night-at least I got it. What a great thing to have happened. Kudos to Lucy and and David for doing this!!! - -----Original Message----- From: Deb Woodell To: Lucylist Sent: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:09 am Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy moment I tried sending this last night, and I didn't see it go through. A longtime friend is in the hospital and we're told he is dying. About 10-11 yrs ago, he was hospitalized while awaiting a heart transplant and wrote about his experiences for my paper, the Phila. Daily News, and there is a poignant Lucy moment in the segment below: FEST COMES TO US I instantly bonded with Bob, a Delaware resident who, like me, is 52 and a Philadelphia Folk Festival junkie. He's been going for 20 consecutive years; I've been going for 35. We mourned that we'd miss the 1997 edition. Almost as a joke, Bob's wife Linda said one day, ``Wouldn't it be nice if the festival could come to us this year?'' ``You know,'' I said, ``that's entirely possible. Let me make a few phone calls. '' I checked with hospital brass to see if they'd allow a visit from festival performers. The answer was a resounding yes. The next call was to dear friend Lisette Bralow, who handles publicity for the music fest. Lis arranged for two acts to visit the day before the festival. Singer/songwriters Lucy Kaplansky and David Olney, guitars in tow, put on an hourlong show for patients, family, friends and staff. Channel 6 covered the event, making us instant stars. We hoped to draw attention to the embarrassing number of people who are not organ donors. == The way to find the real 'world' is not merely to measure and observe what is outside us, but to discover our own inner ground. -- Thomas Merton == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:28:25 -0800 (PST) From: Gina Golde Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy moment This is a wonderful story. I'm just wondering if he has the music that he loves playing for him now? Gina Deb Woodell wrote: I tried sending this last night, and I didn't see it go through. A longtime friend is in the hospital and we're told he is dying. About 10-11 yrs ago, he was hospitalized while awaiting a heart transplant and wrote about his experiences for my paper, the Phila. Daily News, and there is a poignant Lucy moment in the segment below: FEST COMES TO US I instantly bonded with Bob, a Delaware resident who, like me, is 52 and a Philadelphia Folk Festival junkie. He's been going for 20 consecutive years; I've been going for 35. We mourned that we'd miss the 1997 edition. Almost as a joke, Bob's wife Linda said one day, ``Wouldn't it be nice if the festival could come to us this year?'' ``You know,'' I said, ``that's entirely possible. Let me make a few phone calls. '' I checked with hospital brass to see if they'd allow a visit from festival performers. The answer was a resounding yes. The next call was to dear friend Lisette Bralow, who handles publicity for the music fest. Lis arranged for two acts to visit the day before the festival. Singer/songwriters Lucy Kaplansky and David Olney, guitars in tow, put on an hourlong show for patients, family, friends and staff. Channel 6 covered the event, making us instant stars. We hoped to draw attention to the embarrassing number of people who are not organ donors. == The way to find the real 'world' is not merely to measure and observe what is outside us, but to discover our own inner ground. -- Thomas Merton == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:05:26 EST From: CandyAsman@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy moment I am still so moved by reading your story last night. Very touching and very caring to share it with us. Thank you, prayers, thoughts, peace sent to your friend. "...my friend, there's no end to the music" - C. King In a message dated 2/12/2008 12:43:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, togg@sbcglobal.net writes: This is a wonderful story. I'm just wondering if he has the music that he loves playing for him now? Gina Deb Woodell wrote: I tried sending this last night, and I didn't see it go through. A longtime friend is in the hospital and we're told he is dying. About 10-11 yrs ago, he was hospitalized while awaiting a heart transplant and wrote about his experiences for my paper, the Phila. Daily News, and there is a poignant Lucy moment in the segment below: FEST COMES TO US I instantly bonded with Bob, a Delaware resident who, like me, is 52 and a Philadelphia Folk Festival junkie. He's been going for 20 consecutive years; I've been going for 35. We mourned that we'd miss the 1997 edition. Almost as a joke, Bob's wife Linda said one day, ``Wouldn't it be nice if the festival could come to us this year?'' ``You know,'' I said, ``that's entirely possible. Let me make a few phone calls. '' I checked with hospital brass to see if they'd allow a visit from festival performers. The answer was a resounding yes. The next call was to dear friend Lisette Bralow, who handles publicity for the music fest. Lis arranged for two acts to visit the day before the festival. Singer/songwriters Lucy Kaplansky and David Olney, guitars in tow, put on an hourlong show for patients, family, friends and staff. Channel 6 covered the event, making us instant stars. We hoped to draw attention to the embarrassing number of people who are not organ donors. == The way to find the real 'world' is not merely to measure and observe what is outside us, but to discover our own inner ground. -- Thomas Merton == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V9 #68 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message