Lisa's Gathering

Lisa's Gathering
Lisa's nephew Micheal, wife Nancy, sons Mathew and William invite you to remember Lisa. Bring your best memories and stories to share. Everyone is welcome please spread the word.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Lisa At the Opera Shop

Working on Nutcraker I believe, had a run in with a piece of foam and got the black eye.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

First of the Christmas Series


Is this Micheal or Bill?

One of Many Tutu Pictures


The Bay T.H.

The Bay

Holding,
We are held.
Woven,  enfolded,
Contained by these mountains,
Hills,
And this water.
Ocean,
Oh so immense
Rolling out beyond
Our Gate.
The West Wind
Comes,
Brings rain and fog
And clears the way
For slanting, piercing sun
That transfixes our afternoons,
Our hearts, our hopes.

Ó  2013    ted heimerdinger

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Celebration of Life Date Change

Please note the date has been changed for our gathering.
It is now Saturday, January 25th 4014.
One o'clock.
Further details will be posted later.
The Heafey's welcome all who knew Lisa to attend.

Ready for something


Little Red Chair

Lisa spoke of her red chair, I did not know she had a matching dress

Waiting for the Snow- TH


Waiting for the Snow

We all…
Black bears, squirrels,
The dense gray ghosting forest
With russet heart
Of fallen leaves,
Even the industrious Nuthatch,
Ever upside down,
Master of tree trunks,
Pause in this still,
Even slightly warm
Moment, air,
Pause:
Feeling, seeking
The softest fall of all…
Waiting for the snow.

Only the streams and brooks
Continue,
Are irrepressible.
Our mountains are full of water
And it must spring forth.
So the shimmering sound
Of water over rocks,
Is background
To winter stillness.

This is
Our peace.

Ó  2013  ted heimerdinger


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Lisa in her familiar draping pose


In front of the doughboy


Owling for Lisa 11/16/13

When the poems were coming, they were easy.  Lisa was easy to poem to.- T.H.

Owlwing  (for Lisa Devlin, 11/16/13)

on owlwing you fly,
away, away
so softly
that no mouse, no vole,
no rabbit with twitching ears
can hear.
Powerful reach of bone and feathers,
so subtle and precise,
the joining of desire and physics.

You are off now,
into the winter woods,
flying with grace
away, away.

Ó  2013  ted heimerdinger



Monday, December 9, 2013

Newspaper Article from the Royal Tyler

Jan 24, 1975 with James Kowal and others


The Bay- Ted Heimerdinger


The Bay

Holding,
We are held.
Woven,  enfolded,
Contained by these mountains,
Hills,
And this water.
Ocean,
Oh so immense
Rolling out beyond
Our Gate.
The West Wind
Comes,
Brings rain and fog
And clears the way
For slanting, piercing sun
That transfixes our afternoons,
Our hearts, our hopes.

Ó  2013    ted heimerdinger 

Pictures of Lisa Working


When Lisa was in the hospital she looked from Jennifer to myself and then said "you look the same".
I was thinking this picture was Jennifer, then I thought maybe Teresa, then i zoomed in and wondered if it was me. I think the legs are too long to me. Is it you Jennifer?

Sunday, December 8, 2013

From Tom and Diana's 50th Anniversary party






For Lisa - from Ted Heimerdinger

"When the poems were coming, they were easy.  Lisa was easy to poem to."- TH


For Lisa    (9/14/11)

Tonight I remember all the things
I've done and not done today.
I washed two of my Mt. Olive Jumbo Pickle jars,
So big they could be houses for toads,
Snakes and lizards…
I use them for compost.
It can take me months to empty the jar,
To eat the pickles,
But I can’t resist buying…
And it’s a good deal on pickles.
I put up the two sliding screens to the balcony.
Lots of WD-40 for the wheels.
Now I can let the cats out there at night
Where they can be hypnotized by the bats;
Just hope Pantha doesn’t do a swan dive
Down to the Black-eyed Susans.
Zippy is much too fat and way too sedate.
I didn’t give blood, missed a precinct meeting,
Didn’t take my weekly hike.
My parsley is going off,
And the half bushel of peaches
In the fridge, needs to be used.

Then I thought of you working so hard
To spray paint the fiberglass columns…
Was it for Aida or Thais?
You were learning how
To spray with a Binks Air Gun
And you did,
With care and love and passion.

Ó  2011  ted heimerdinger