Tasha Tudor - Living Women's Herstory
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- WarmSpirit
- PierJ
- LadyB
- Gay_Klok
- Gay_Klok
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- gentility
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» WarmSpirit - Herstory
Okay, you got me, I want to go to Vermont now. I want to know this lady and see what she has accomplished. Yes, I do want to go to Vermont, of all places. I heard they have some pretty good maple syrup up there! Heck with the syrup though... I want to visit Tasha Tudor. She sounds like a very neat lady. And those dogs! How many Corgies does she have?-- posted by WarmSpirit
» PierJ - She gets my vote!!
Barbara, I just love Tasha Tudor! Did you see her interviewed last year on 20/20 or some similar show? I will always have a vivid picture in my mind of that little lady, moving rocks in her garden, weaving her own cloth, and talking about the fact that she can still lift a bail of hay to feed her livestock!! Have you been to http://www.tashatudor.com ?I, too, want to be her when I grow up~~meet ya in Vermont in about 40 years!!
-- posted by PierJ
» LadyB - Ahhhhh
I see she's CERTAINLY gotten to both of YOU! Can't you just see ALL of us showing up on her doorstep announcing "We want to be you, OK?"Pier, thanks for that link (it has the photo from the cover of the book, folks) Wonder who actually puts it up, though - marketing her stuff from Virginia.
Mike, I have no idea HOW many little corgyn are trotting about up there, they just seem to be EVERYWHERE.
-- posted by LadyB
» Gay_Klok - Thank you Barbara
Thank YOU too, Barbara. I am off to the Internet bookstores. Even her name is perfect. It is amazing how, every now and again, a book will have a profound effect in your life. I am so glad that you bought it and was able to share the experience with us allKees had a first cousin, living in the Netherlands, who was a curator of a Museum. There farm house [BTW his wife had a lot of money] which was a 18thC home in every sense. No electricity etc and they dressed in traditional Dutch clothes. The first time we visited it was a rainy Sunday and the whole family was in the kitchen [6 children, little girls with long flaxen plaits] knitting and sewing by the roaring fire. In the sitting room or whatever they called it, everywhere I looked, were original Delft plates, tiles etc - now worth a fortune.
It is sad to write that now the children are grown, University trained and completely rebellious from anything to do with Old Holland. The wonderful Delft collection had to be donated to the Museum as the Insurance became too demanding - locks on doors and glass in windows were required and so this will be the last real individualist in Kees' family unless it comes out in another generation!
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» Gay_Klok - Link
I have just been to the link and now I am sorry I did. She seems to have turned a little commercial or has someone done it for her? And probably taking most of the proceeds???Sorry, Lady B - I would have liked to live with your image or am I being too hard?
The Secret Garden illustration - my favourite childrens' book and so perhaps my excitement is stirred again!
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» LadyB - I had the same reaction
to that link.....I do believe someone is marketing for her. When you read the text of the book, she seems NOTHING like that.......Interesting concept of perhaps the newest generation picking up an historic family thread. It does happen. One of the children or great-grandchildren will perhaps find something that resonates and so catch the thread before it breaks altogether. It's why we share these precious things.
When I hear my college-student daughter tell me someone is giving her ethnic drumming guidance in return for her teaching them about healing plants, it warms my little herbalist heart. She took the thread.
-- posted by LadyB
» Gay_Klok - The book
I ordered the book from Amazon - 30pc off - and of course I thought I'd better order another to make the shipping cost less [it's the Irish blood in me] and stopped myself ordering another. There was 30 pc off the other so the $7.00 shipping was well and truly paid for LOL-- posted by Gay_Klok
» gentility - Re: Ahhhhh
In response to message posted by LadyB:Is there a time limit for commenting on comments?
New to Suite U.. May I kindly be included when
you all truck up to the Vermont doorstep of Tasha
Tudor? I have been a fan of hers for a number of
years and although I do not think I shall ever be
just like her when I grow up (she is too unique and from a singular mold), I believe her spirit of
individualism and tenacity would be within the
reach of many of us. A wonderful excercise would
be listing those women whom one wanted to finally emulate when grown up and examining the admired characteristics they held in common. It would be telling; what elements could lead to one's personal fullfillment? The seeds already there, seeking affirmation and nurturing or their fruition already existing, waiting to be ripened and absorbed. You can or have become those whom you admire..
Such an exercise might also disclose the fabric
of one's soul as a profile under which the ideal
could be layered and compared. Tasha Tudor talks
about all sorts of people she admired in her growing up and as you listen to her tape you
recognize that she adopted their gifts as her own and made them the sum of her existence, and
what an enchanting existence it is.
If you ladies have not already gone to Vermont,
my passport is at the ready when you do...
-- posted by gentility
» marvswife - Re: Re: Ahhhhh
In response to message posted by gentility:I agree wholeheartedly about our being the sum of all of the women who have influenced our lives, my grandmother, mother and countless authors, historians,teachers and people I have had the wonderful experience of just "meeting" through my lifetime have made all the difference. I too, long for a quieter, more simplistic lifestyle and I know it may not be in my future to be like Tasha Tudor in everyday living, I can emulate and receive grand wisdom from her long and productive life. Please include me on the bus also!! What a great pleasure it would be to just listen to her speak of all she has gleaned from such a triumphant life.
-- posted by marvswife
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