| Dear Alicia, I've checked out the Lost Valley page on your website, and am really impressed--others are too. Thanks! Oh, I really like your CD too--well done--very nice! Maybe we can learn a few of those songs for our morning circles. In any case, I expect it will be well-listened-to in the kitchen. Take care and thanks for visiting and sharing! Love, Chris Chris Roth, Editor |
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| your site is loverly. I like the movement.....
very nice... did you do that? or someone did it for you..... "Road Tech 101 "I apologize for the rather dry content of this particular page; ..." not dry at all to me. delicious data. "Living
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| Email from Mari Kono Hello friends,
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| Dear Alicia Thank you so much for coming to our store on July 21. I'm sorry we were unable to get you a better turnout, however, as we discussed perhaps our store may not have been the best venue to appreciate your work. However, it was a true pleasure to meet and discuss your work with you. It was a great treat. I wish you much success in your ongoing tour and in all your future work. Sincerely, Maria Muscarella Community Relations Coordinator Barnes & Noble Vancouver, Washington |
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| thinking of you alicia...... it was SO great to not only meet you, but hang out with you and learn you are as great as I had envisioned you at 8 when I recieved your book! just as your trip is witness to the fact that people really are doing great, positive things, you are proof that people really do walk the talk... *smile........ again, it was truly great to meet you and I hope we can keep in touch B I G love to you sister,
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| I enjoyed meeting you after
all these years, and was enthralled by your story-telling and musical performance at Phoenix Rising here in Port Townsend. My friend was sick and we had to leave your second presentation before it was over, but we enjoyed your show. You are certainly a professional with true integrity - to give such a full performance regardless of the numbers in the audience. You seemed to embody the belief that if one's creativity touches even one person on a soul level it has been successful. I look forward to your posting the lyrics from your CD on your website. As I mentioned to you, I'd love to introduce some of your songs to the singalong circles I participate in. Imagine your songs eventually spreading by word-of-mouth all over the country (perhaps even the world)! If you also included guitar chords that would be helpful too. Whenever you find the time and energy to accomplish this I want you to know it will be much appreciated. Are you familiar with the songbook "Rise Up Singing"? It's a popular book for use at such singalongs that includes a great variety of over a thousand song lyrics, old and more recent. I don't know whether they're taking new submissions, nor do I know whether you'd be interested in submitting, but I know some of your compositions would fit in well and be a useful addition to the collection. "Rise Up Singing" is compiled by Peter Blood and Annie Patterson of Glens Mills, Pennsylvania. The publisher is Sing Out!, PO Box 5253, Bethlehem, PA 18015-0253 phone:(610)865-5366. Yesterday morning as I walked my two dogs in the meadow below my trailer, a hawk descended from the high blue sky and hovered above me, circling over me very slowly and looking me in the eye. I had just been ruminating upon the idea that human beings who respect and love the earth may be approaching a critical mass at an exponential rate - a newly encouraging thought to me (especially in light of the hundredth monkey phenomenon), since I've recently emerged from the dark well of a violent marriage, profound losses, and clinical depression. I understand that the appearance of a hawk may signify a time to trust and follow divine signs life puts before us. I did some writing I needed to do (I write for a holistically oriented equine publication called COMPANION HORSE), then went for a walk downtown. I felt drawn to the block the bookstore was on, then saw the sign for your book signing and talk on the door. I looked at my watch and noticed it was exactly time for your first presentation. I guess I literally followed one of life's signs then! Thank you for sharing your life with us and for doing the best you can in so many ways, especially creatively! I hope you have a good stay in Port Townsend and a delightful rest of your tour. Love, Olivia Greene |
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| Dearest Alicia-- There is no way I
could ever thank you enough for what your life and work
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| Alicia! Tony and I pulled out our
tattered copy of Living on the Earth..we were looking for ways to tempura squash blossoms so abundant now in the garden. We dreamily fell into that world and wondered where you could be...how blessed we are to reconnect! Our daughter, Janna, lives in Bellingham..we hope she meets you on Aug.8th at Village Books! Til then, please know that we see you as radiant as ever. You remain one of our most cherished memories. Jane ps Alicia, could it really be you, 30 yrs. later? Do you remember the big chopping block we had in the big house? Jane and I still use it. It really has some stories, and you're in them. We'd love to connect. Love, Tony Tuck |
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| I am loving the journal! The travels are
wonderful! The stories and people are so beautiful. I especially love the Full Circle Temple. I am so inspired and my creative energy seems to flow alot smoother and consistently after reading another days journal entry. Bless you on your sacred journey. Thanks for sharing it all! Love, Tracy |
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| Hello Alicia! I just want to say that what you are doing right now is so cool!!! I just found your website and have been having so much fun and am so inspired by reading your journal entries throughout your travels. Thank you so much for sharing the beautiful stories and photos about your encounters with these wonderful souls. I am so inspired by your journey and the people you are meeting. Reading about them is helping me to stay committed to my ideals and dreams as I see others living theirs. I am also so excited that I may meet you in person next week at the Women's Herbal Conference in New Hampshire!! I was thrilled to see you listed in the program. Since you aren't coming close to where I live (Maryland) on your tour, I'm so happy to have this opportunity to see you, and hear your music (which I love from what I've heard on your site). I'll be bringing along my 1971 edition of Living on the Earth to perhaps have you sign. Blessings to you on your journey, and many many thanks for sharing with us in such a beautiful way, Andrea Koutras Lay |
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| Hi Alicia, Just checking-in to say Hi and let you know how much I enjoyed meeting you. I've been enjoying your wonderful web site travel photos also. Please let me know when you come through here again. Would love to make dinner for you. King and Joan also say Hi. Have a good rest of the trip. Drive careful. Loving thoughts, Larry Sheehy |
| Hope you and Bernie are well on the
road, and enjoying the trip. I really enjoyed both your visit to our house, and hearing your "show" up at Chapters. I am sorry it was so poorly attended. I do not think that they did any publicity at all. If you decide to do another tour next summer, I can recommend some other publicity options up in the city. Even a free show at the library would have been busier than that! You were great however, as I expect you are at every stop. I showed George your webpages of your visit here. We both got a good laugh; "our 15 minutes of fame". I am amazed at how good everything looks on the web. Thanks- hope you are both doing ok. I'll check in on your page and see! love, Rose |
| Hi Wonder-wandering
woman! So glad you got to meet my friends Serene and Dudley in Bellingham. Serene organized a nice workshop for me up there and I stayed in her tower room. Also grateful to have pictures of Mela's outrageous home. After I visited her, on your recommen- dation, I tried to describe that magical place to Richard and others but fell far short. Lucky you to stay in the White Goddess room. I drooled over that! So where are you now. A week has gone by without a dose of AliciaBayLaurel does the US. What did you think of Al gore's speech and the whole political deal now (in a nutshell). Hope to hear from you soon. You light up my screen. Love and Happy Trails, Sophia |
| I think it is fabulous that you have
persued such a creative life. Somehow, someway, I stumbled across your website and it gave me so much inspiration. I'm a woman who feels like I am unable to do it all, but I want to so bad, but girl look at you! :) What a full rich life you lead. I'd love for you to come out this way (NC, SC, GA). I'll keep an eye out. Keep up the energy! How do you do it? Colleen |
| I was so looking forward to spending
some time with you in Rapid City on 8/17. Sorry it didn't work out. It was serendipity that I picked up a flyer that was floating around at Women's Connection ... it was meant for me and meant to be, I'm sure! I have your book from the 70's. I was a teen. I dug it out from my bookshelf and brought it to the store. Was disappointed to find your book signing had been cancelled. Hope you had a nice time in the neighborhood, anyway. I hadn't heard of Twiggs, but stopped by and met Denise today, bought the 30th Ann. edition, visited and got acquainted. Hope you can visit this way again sometime. Now I have TWO books to get autographed. Kathy Paulsen |
| Recently I pulled my copy of Home
Comfort off the shelf, dusted it off, and decided to read it again, believing that I had in fact, read it before. Interesting that it seems now that the only parts I had read were about baking and cheese making! So I am reading it again , for the first time. I had no idea you were involved in Total Loss Farm. I had met you before, as readers do, in Living on the Earth. It was a book that had been quite influential in my life, so influential that I belive I must have loaned it to someone, probably hoping to inspire in them some of what i believed I had been inspired with. Haven't seen it in awhile. Do have Moosewood Cookbook; have worn out the page with the Spinach Cheese casserole on it, and you did teach me to roll burrittos and eggrolls i believe. Do you actually read these letters? I should hope that it is special to you to know that what you have written has influenced folks. I'm real glad you got published. I picked up Home Comfort, partly because we are embarking on some communal living around here again and it seemed appropriate. Way different situation, but some of the ideals are the same. Do you have any idea where any of those people are anymore? Or how they are living on the earth? All this makes me want to use my trusty pc to try to locate my old communal families. Please 'scuse the ramblings, yours was the email address that I found. Did you illustrate the Festivals for the New Age or something like that that I have around here somewhere? Barbara |
| Hi Alicia- hope your odyssey is going
well. I'll check in on your website tonite and see what you've posted. I listened to your CD the other nite while I was doing some creative quilt designing (a sample for a class this fall) and really enjoyed it. I liked recognizing the tunes from the Chapters presentation, and just thought the whole thing so well done. The last choral piece is wonderful, I'm glad you thought to include it. How amazing this whole passage of your life has turned out to be. Quite the "Life is Art and Art is Life" thing. All the very best to you, always- Rose (and George, who is baking bread) |
| Hi Alicia: Loved reading your northwest visits in August! Lovely people, beautiful area, and the photos are terrific! Local chambers of commerce ought to support your reports! Or at least the publication of 'Living On The Road.' Love, Ramon and Judy Sender |