Dear Ann Imig,
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to write about my Listen to Your Mother experience. But how do you recap an experience that changed you in ways you can’t explain? I’m still not sure I can. But then I realized, that at the heart of all that I’m feeling, I’m so grateful to all that you began a few short years ago. And so I thought I would try to write some sort of a thank you. And while this might be an odd way to write a thank you note, I’m not sure it could be written any other way. Because I’m not sure I could fit my thanks to you on a note card I bought at Target. I’m actually not sure that I can fit my thanks to you in a blog post. But heaven knows I’m going to try.
Thank you for this amazing platform to share a story I didn’t know I still needed to tell. Thank you for this opportunity to heal and grow. For this chance to love others and myself through the words that I wrote.
Thank you for entrusting your vision to the beautiful and talented Margaret and Nichole who produced and directed one hell of a show. For giving them this chance to love us, and for us to love them. (My goodness, they are amazing.) (No really, AMAZING.)
Thank you for believing that Sacramento was ready for such a fantastic experience. Everyone loved the show. Everyone was blown away. I wish you could’ve felt the love that filled that theater. Thank you for believing in all of us.
Thank you for giving us all this creative and fulfilling celebration of Motherhood.
Thank you THANK YOU for the Listen to Your Mother Show. My life is enriched because I experienced this. My heart has grown in ways I can’t explain. I have learned so much from every aspect of this show that you created. I’m amazed and in awe of all the lives touched. I’m so grateful I was able to show my husband and my daughters what this meant to me. I’m so grateful that I could share this with so many of my loved ones.
Thank you for bringing 15+ amazing people into my life that I can no longer live without. Not to blow any secrets, but we’re already planning for us all to live in close proximity (maybe something of a commune) where we can all live in harmony and ridiculous amounts of love. There are BIG plans in the works, but we’ve settled on a weekend getaway while we solidify our more “permanent” plans.
I could say “thank you” a million more times…to you, to Nichole & Margaret…to my cast mates and to my loved ones and it still wouldn’t be enough. Listen to Your Mother has changed me forever. It is magical and wonderful and amazing and phenomenal. I’m so proud to have been a part of it. I’m so blessed to have experienced the beauty and the joy that this show brings.
So thank you, Ann. For all of this. You started something that has changed us all.
Thank you.
Jill
I, too, am incredible grateful. To Nichole and Margaret and all of the other director producers for the hours and hours and sweat and love and emails–and especially to the readers like you who brave the process to share their words. THANK YOU.
You truly are the Happy Ending, Jill.
Thank you, Penny. This means more to me than you could know. xoxo
Hi! Sorry I’m late to the party! Did everybody leave?
Anyway, your words are wonderful. Thank you for them. We are also very grateful to Ann for reasons you’ve already stated and stated so well. You are one the people I’m going to hang onto for dear life for the rest of my life. So you may want to start thinking restraining order that’s how much I want to hang on. XOXOXOXOXXOXO
Person! Dang it. I meant to say “person”. That’s right – “you are the one people…”. Ugh! #facepalm