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Across the world
Poem by Mary Oliver – “To live in this world you must be able to do three things Love what is mortal To hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it…
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PAY IT FORWARD
I knew Carol’s voice before I was born, and she knew my heartbeat. I’m so lucky to have known and loved her, and experienced the awesome love she put into the world for so…
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I first met Carol in 1989…
I first met Carol in 1989 when I started teaching in Lincoln. It was Molly and Oakley (and their parents) who introduced me to her. My first thought was, “If I ever get pregnant,…
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grace
Carol graciously agreed to help me birth my first child when I was 34 weeks pregnant- give or take a week. I had just toured our local hospital birthing wing and emphatically declared, “I…
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blessing
Carol helped me deliver two of my babies, both on winter nights – the first during a February snowstorm and the second under a clear January full moon. I am forever grateful for her…
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Gifts
Here’s dear Carol with just one of the many groups of parents she guided through the process of pregnancy and birth. So many years ago now, yet seeing this image brings back the fullness…
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My Work is Loving the World
This poem by Mary Oliver captures Carol: My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the…
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She was a force
This powerful force for life, this courageous, strong, beautiful woman was my midwife at the birth of my first child on Jan. 18, 1976. Carol and her partner, “Beep,” held my hand as our…
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Warmth
She was so warm to so many, to me and my family, for certain, and I am not sure I’ve known anybody else with that clarity of love, so freely expressed. Bob Bernstein