Kathy Hatcher:
CLASS OF 1971
Cleveland High SchoolClass of 1971
Seattle, WA
Georgetown Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Seattle, WA
Kathy's Story
Kathy is from Georgetown, Seattle, Washington. Kathy's schools include Georgetown Public School, Asa Mercer Junior High School, Cleveland High School. Kathy has two children: daughter Lucy born in 1977, and son Michael born in 1992. Kathy has three grandchildren: Elizabeth, Jefferson, and Alexander. Kathy currently lives in the New Holly/Rainier Valley neighborhood in southeast Seattle.
Music Kathy likes includes The Beatles, Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman. Books Kathy likes include Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Whistling Past the Graveyard, Letters from the Earth. Artists/painters Kathy likes include Maxfield Parrish, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo. Movies Kathy likes include The Princess Bride, Good Will Hunting, Little Shop of Horrors. TV shows Kathy likes include Firefly, The Wire, Sherlock. Kathy enjoys attending live events such as theater and concerts. Kathy loves the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Mariners.
Kathy's favorite quotes are:
"Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
~ Walt Whitman (preface: Leaves of Grass)
Make me strong in spirit,
Courageous in action,
Gentle of heart,
Let me act in wisdom,
Conquer my fear and doubt,
Discover my own hidden gifts,
Meet others with compassion,
Be a source of healing energies,
And face each day with hope and joy.
~ Abby Willowroot
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are...Expand for more
but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
~ Chief Seattle
To surrender dreams - this may be madness.
Too much sanity may be madness.
And maddest of all,
to see life as it is and not as it should be.
~ Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. ~ Walt Whitman
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The Invitation
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know, or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
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