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From YouTube: Celebrate Life: Emily Anderson
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From Gary De Carolis:
Five words that describe Emily: Engaging, Resourceful, Deep, Creative, Friendly
Emily Anderson is a multi-faceted artist, performer, educator, and fairy maker! She’s the creative force behind Bluebird Fairies, where her artwork take shape as oracle decks, a digital app, and expressive workshops. Using her non-dominant hand, Emily’s single-line fairies carry heartfelt messages, supporting people’s positivity and hope.
Beyond her artistic realm, Emily’s passion lies in empowering others. As Coordinator of the Bridging program, she skillfully forges partnerships with arts organizations, artists, and community allies, creating meaningful opportunities for students.
An advocate at heart, Emily co-facilitates Champlain Voices, elevating voices under the Green Mountain Self Advocates umbrella.
Emily lives nestled on the edge of Vermont’s natural beauty. When not drawing fairies and other beings, she weaves blanket on her grandmother’s loom, spends time connecting with nature, and enjoys moments with loved ones.
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A
This
show
is
all
about
interviewing
some
wonderful
vermonters
and
a
few
people
outside
of
Vermont
who
have
wonderful
lives
and
they're
still
alive,
and
so
my
belief
is
that
everyone,
no
matter
how
famous
or
not
a
person
is,
has
a
story
to
tell
if
you'd
be
interested
in
being
interviewed
on
the
show.
Please
write
me
at
Celebrate:
Life,
zero,
seven,
four,
seven
gmail.com
or
if
you
have
a
question
for
the
person
I'm
interviewing,
please
do
the
same.
Write
me
at
Celebrate
life
at
zero.
B
Well,
I,
guess,
right
now
and,
and
part
of
that
is
because
even
just
coming
into
this
space
I
do
a
lot
of
things
in
this
space,
with
the
program
that
I
coordinate
called
the
bridging
program.
So
so
I
want
to
kind
of
say
that,
because
at
the
same
time,
I
I
love
the
idea
of
this
conversation
where
we
can
kind
of
weave
together.
B
Two
roles
that
I
seem
to
have
created
with
my
life
so
far,
and
that
is,
is
supporting
and
advocating
and
developing
the
the
space
for
young
people
with
disabilities
to
be
themselves
and
love
themselves
and
know
who
they
are
so
that
they
can
and
learn
about
the
world.
And
they
come
here
and
we
make
a
TV
show
about
whatever
we
usually
have
kindness
idea.
But
we
we
give
them
really
the
tools
and
the
space
to
to
learn
that
that's
what
CCTV
and
other
stations
like
this
are
for
media
making
places
are.
C
B
Tell
your
story,
not
the
Hollywood,
Story
or
the
right
and
and
that
that's
been
a
through
line
in
my
life
of
for
a
while
working
with
people
with
disabilities
and
supporting
them
and
telling
their
story,
and
then
there's
also
this
other
part
of
my
life,
which
is
this
drawing
technique
that
I
developed
and
use
on
a
daily
basis
to
support
and
help
me
feel.
Okay
being
me
and
having
hope
and
positive
thoughts
and
being
able
to
live,
live,
you
know
happily
and
and
feeling
some
sense
of
success
with
the
different.
C
A
B
C
B
C
B
Grandparents
also
lived
in
that
City
and
that
that
I
feel
like
having
my
grandparents
around
and
I've
even
read
that
people
who
have
that
sort
of
regularly,
knowing
that
it's
not
just
their
own
home,
that
they're
getting
love
from
but
outside
of
the
home
and
and
our
so
I
know
that
really
set
a
foundation
for
me
and
Mike.
My
I
also
believed
in
fairness
and
so
I
had
a
grandmother
and
my
on
the
one
side.
I
had
a
grandmother
because
my
grandfather
had
died.
C
B
C
B
Gonna
really
make
an
effort
to
be
able
to
communicate
well
with
everybody,
so
that
included
my
dead
grandfather.
I
meet
her
every
Sunday
I.
Whether
I
had
this
place.
I
would
talk
to
him,
you
know,
and
to
sort
of
think
about
what
he
would
be
saying
back
to
me
and
then
my
grandmother,
my
deaf
grandmother
for
years,
had
been
giving
me
a
man.
They
they
didn't
use
sign
language.
They
used
finger
smelling
in
the
in
Rochester
at
the
Rochester
School
for
the
Deaf.
That
was
their
form
of
communication.
That.
C
C
B
B
Was
probably
probably
an
eight
and
ten
years
old
and
and
I
I?
My
grandfather
I
would
do
a
lot
of
things
with
my
my
grandparents,
because
he
he
have
he
loved
cars.
He
had
worked
in
the
car
industry,
his
whole
life,
but
he
realized
he
couldn't
drive
anymore.
So
he
had
me
be
the
driver
of
their
car
and
I
would
drive
them
to
their
their
their
dad.
They
had
a.
They
were
part
of
a
club
called
deer
which
is
deaf
elderly
around
Rochester,
because
my
grandfather
was
a
huge.
They
were.
C
B
C
A
B
B
B
A
B
Yeah
and
then
when
I
was,
you
know,
I
think
I
had
this
pivotal
moment
and
it's
it's
it
sort
of
had
I
had
a
you
know,
a
great
real
remembering
of
it
when
I
was
12
years
old.
My
mother
took
us
to
see
the
movie
hair
and
it
completely
changed
my
life
because
I
think
growing
up
with
the
feeling
of
the
Vietnam
War
all
around
you
know
we
watched
I.
B
Remember
we
used
to
watch
the
TV
during
dinner
until
it
fell
over
and
broke,
and
we
didn't
do
that
anymore,
but
I
think
seeing
that
movie
just
made
me
realize
the
power
of
theater
and
the
power
of
delivering
a
story
that
had
hope
in
it
and,
like
you
know,
something
can
change,
because
I
had
definitely
growing
up
in
Rochester
I
went
to
Alternative
public
high
schools.
I
was
sort
of
surrounded
by
the
efforts
of
the
people
in
my
life
or
the
predecessors
of
the
adults.
In
my
life.
C
A
B
C
C
B
B
C
A
B
B
B
B
How
can
we
do
high
school
different?
This
is
not
working
and
they
had.
They
told
a
story
when
I
went
to
the
one
of
the
anniversaries
for
the
school
where,
where
there
was
a
sign
up,
you
know
teachers
do
you
want
to
make
a
difference?
How
can
we
make
this
better
and
they
gathered
everyone
together
in
a
room
and-
and
somebody
like
the
majority
of
the
people
were
like
okay,
we
need
to
have
police
officers
in
the
school.
C
C
B
Went
there
and
and
in
that
school
you,
you
wrote,
you
kept
a
journal
and
you
you
had
an
extended
class
teacher
and
that
was
kind
of
your
home
base
class.
So
I
had
an
art
class
that
was
led
by
Bob
Giroux,
and
so
he
was
a
person
who
was
reading
my
journal
and
he
finally
was
like
Emily.
You
keep
talking
about
hair
because.
C
B
B
B
A
C
B
Didn't
realize
what
I
mean
I
know
that
Community
has
certainly
mourning
the
loss
of
him,
so
so
I
just
adored
him,
like
you,
know,
Melissa
Gilbert,
I
learned
on
Instagram
also
adored
him,
because
he
he
took
that
role
and
did
it.
You
know
so
well
and
and
so
so
Treat
Williams
also
meant
many
things
to
me.
Like
I.
You
know
there
were
some
struggles
I
had
in
my
media
at
home,
and
you
know
he
was
my
long-lost
brother
and.
C
B
Teacher
Bob
Drew
was
like
you
keep
talking
about
hair
the
movie
Hair.
You
need
to
see
the
bread
and
Puppet
Theater
and
they're
coming
to
town
in
Rochester,
they're
gonna.
You
know
at
10
o'clock
or
three
o'clock
you
know
and
at
my
school
you
know
there
was
something
that
was
connected
to
Art,
which
was
your.
B
B
A
B
B
B
C
C
A
C
B
C
B
Exciting-
and
it
was
the
first
time
like
political
theater-
had
really
arrived
in
my
life
because,
all
through
my
two
years
in
high
school,
my
final
years,
you
got
to
do
a
senior
project
and
I
had
finished
all
my
classes.
So
so
the
senior
project
that
I
was
able
to
do
was
to
just
go
work
at
a
theater.
So.
C
C
B
C
B
A
A
B
C
B
C
C
C
B
Had
a
lot
of
canned
things,
they
were
not
inventive,
Cooks
and
my
mom
had
this
whole
interest
in
eating
wholesome
and
eating.
But
you
know
she
was
early
on
with
the
bulk
food
movement
and
just
had
these
food
gurus
and
we
would
look
at
their
cookbooks
if
we
were
going
to
make
something.
So
just
a
real,
a
real
awareness
of
what
you
put
in
your
body
is
is
really
important.
C
B
Knowledgeable,
yes,
she
also
did
yoga.
She
was
one
of
those
early
adopters
doing
yoga.
She
also
found
the
church
that
we
were
a
part
of
and
I
even
graduated
from,
because
because
I
went
to
school
without
walls-
and
it
didn't
have
a
place
for
to
graduate,
but
we
were
involved
in
the
Unitarian
Church.
Okay,.
A
B
And
that
was
where
I
went
to
preschool.
That's
where
my
mom
did
yoga
classes.
That's
we
were.
We
had
really
great
Sunday
School
classes
and
that's
where
actually
very
first
started
doing.
Theater
was
because
we
had
a
it
was
called
biblical
Jesus
class
and
we
would
put
on
Jesus
Christ,
Superstar
and
God
spell
and
the
first
time
I
took
the
class.
They
they
wrote
a
play.
That
was.
C
C
A
B
C
B
C
B
B
B
B
C
C
B
And
but
but
to
fingerspell
everything
right
is
a
lot.
I
mean
it's
not
hard
to
do
it,
but
it's
hard
to
receive.
Yes,
if
you're
not
I
mean
my
grandparents,
you
know
they
could
talk
in
their
sleep
to
each
other.
They
they
knew
it
on
a
whole
fundamental
difference
level.
Yes,
so
I
think
there
is
a
bit
of
a
Outsider
feeling
which
I
feel
like
I
also
grew
up
with
somehow
this
kind
of
I
don't
fit
in
and
I.
B
A
B
Feeling
now
my
father,
my
father,
is
very
I
feel
like
I
feel,
like
my
inward
parts
of
me
are
from
my
mom
and
her
family,
and
my
outward
orientation
to
the
world
is
much
like
my
father's.
He
was
very
gregarious
and
friendly
and
loved
to
talk
to
people
and
and
I
realized
when
I'm
with
other
other
people
from
The
Andersons.
You
know
that's
what
we
do
we
are.
B
C
B
C
B
And
you
know
and
that
that
played
itself
out
in
my
family.
You
know
in
a
coming
to
a
realization
and
at
a
certain
point,
my
mom
and
father
split
for
a
year,
which
was
fascinating
because
it
was
so
cool
to
go
to
my
dad's
apartment
and
see
what
he
chose
to
put
in
it.
Yes,
because
I
growing
up
with
a
grandmother
who
was
a
widower
and
my
grandparents
there's
a
wonderfulness
to
being
with
just
one
person
and.
A
B
So
with
my
father
after
he,
you
know
so
he
came
out
and
you
know
my
they.
Actually,
my
parents
moved
back.
My
father
moved
back
to
my
mother's
because
they
they
just
were
such
a
team
they're
very
different
people,
and
but
they
were,
they
were
a
team,
and
but
my
father
did
have
two
boyfriends
when
he
died.
C
B
My
father
one
time
gave
me
a
book
at
Christmas
by
the
artist
Stark
and
she
does
all
these
books
for
you
to
express
yourself
and
figure
out
who
you
are
and
be
happy,
and
this
was
called
living.
The
succulent
life
and
my
dad
wrote
on
it
inside
he's
like
I.
Think
you
need
this
book
and
I
think
you
know.
I
was
thinking
yeah
I
I!
B
All
over
the
world,
wow
and
and
then
he
gave
me
the
book
when
I
had
moved
here
when
I
was
ready
to
start
my
life
and
and
realized
oh
working
with
people
with
disabilities.
It
like
had
worked
with
so
many
different
cultures,
and
so
many
different
groups,
and
originally
when
I
moved
here.
I
wanted
to
work
with
seniors
and
help
them
tell
their
stories
and
I
did
lots
of
work
with
the
seniors.
But
we
told
lots
of
stories,
but
they
did
not
want
to
go
on
the
road.
B
C
B
C
C
B
Show
what
was
difficult
in
my
life
as
demons
and,
using
my
non-dominant
hand,
to
name
the
demon,
draw
it
sometimes
I'm,
the
demon,
sometimes
I'm,
interacting
with
the
demon
and
then
the
most
important
part
which
we
didn't
talk
about,
is
writing
the
word
antidote
and
then,
as
you're
writing.
It
think
what
is
the
first
thing
I
can
do
to
address
this.
B
Is
the
first
step?
Is
it
oh,
go
outside
and
smell,
something
nice
or
or,
and
the
antidotes
are
as
curious
as
the
names
of
the
Demons,
because
as
I
write,
it
I'm
always
like
what
that's
funny,
because
it
I
was
telling
Gary
earlier
that
when
you
write
with
your
non-dominant
hand,
you
are
connecting
with
something
different
in
you
right.
C
C
B
A
B
A
B
A
B
Then
and
then
somehow
after
this
I,
probably
Drew
like
a
hundred
and
then
I
I
started
to
have
less
to
draw,
and
in
my
in
I
have,
and
it
was,
it
was
on
a
bigger
paper,
I've
sort
of
evolved
into
using
these
four
by
six
index
cards,
but
even
into
those
drawings.
These
fairies
started
coming
and
I
never
thought
okay,
I'm
going
to
be
someone
who
draws
fairies,
but
the
fairies
are
always
something
that
has
happened
that
day
or
something
that
just
feels
like
could
be
positive
words.
B
B
B
B
B
B
Yeah,
because
what
happened
was
when
we
first
rolled
them
out,
which
was
nine
years
ago
at
Art,
Hop
I
just
had
I
had
I
had
these
tucked
away,
someplace
and
I
had
little
pictures
of
like
for
some
reason.
I
I
wanted
to
only
show
like
little
xeroxes
of
the
pictures,
and
if
someone
was
interested,
they
could
tell
me
the
number
and
I
would
give
them
the
fairy,
but
then
we
started
to
do
I
was
like
well.
You
know
three
days
for
this.
I
put
all
the
no.
C
B
I
would
I
would
like
tell
a
story
about
it
or
just
kind
of
see.
Well,
I
was
just
so
interested
to
see
how
a
whole
bunch
of
people
all
different
kinds
of
people
were
responding
to
these
little
drawings.
That
had
drawn,
with
my
left
hand
like
it,
was
a
big
like
share
yeah
but
then
and
I
met
the
man
that
I
married
on
the
third
day
of
Art
Hop.
He
came
in
and
he's
like.
Oh
wow,
you
have
an
oracle
deck.
You
should
make
a
fairy
of
the
day.
B
B
A
C
A
B
Mark
had
wanted
to,
he
said
you
know:
I
just
want
to
work
on
some
ideas
for
a
play.
Maybe
that
awareness
can
awareness,
Theater
Company
can
do
about
my
life,
and
you
know
for
a
couple
years.
I
was
like
this
seems
like
a
really
huge
project
and
I
and
then
finally,
we
sat
down
and
then
it
did
evolve
into
a
project.
B
C
C
B
So
so
Rusty
Louise
read
it
he's
like
well,
this
is
a
bunch
of
scenarios,
but
what
I
think
would
be
interesting
is,
if
you
told
a
day
in
your
life
and
show
how
in
your
life,
because
of
your
communication,
disability,
you
you,
there
are
things
that
you
can't
access
and
how
could
that
be
different,
and
so
Mark's
like
great
on
throwing
this
out,
and
he
you
know,
and
when
anytime
he
threw
something
out.
That
was
like
two
years
more
because.
C
B
Some
funders
who
were
like
we're
ready
to
produce
the
play:
oh
no,
it's
a
it's
a
movie,
okay,
we're
ready
to
help
you
produce
the
movie
and
and
they'd
be
like
okay.
Well,
I'll
get
right
back
to
you,
but
for
us
it
would
be
two
years,
but
this
this
is
sort
of
the
most.
The
I
mean
biggest
project.
I've
done
in
my
life
is
to
support
someone
to
to
go
through
this
process
then
raise
the
money
we
raise.
Sixty
thousand
dollars.
C
C
B
A
B
B
You
have
so
so
what
happened
was
was
he
was
connected
with
the
generator
Makerspace
and
and
for
a
while
Christy
Mitchell
was
there
and
she
had
been
talking
with
me
and
Mark
and
other
people,
so,
along
with
Mark
I
knew
some
other
pretty
amazing,
very
amazing
people
who
use
facilitated
communication
and
are
very
articulate,
intuitive,
wonderful
people
and
and
I
feel,
like
our
you
know,
sometimes
when
you
feel
like
well.
Obviously,
my
grandparents
have
never
really
died.
They're
very
PR,
I.
B
Them
every
day,
but
when
you
realize,
when
you've
been
nurtured
in
your
life
by
people
with
disabilities,
yeah,
you
I,
don't
there's
that
it's
I
was
hearing
that
one
of
I
was
reading,
something
by
another
person.
Who
is
a
coda,
and
he
said
you
know
there's,
because
my
parents
were
deaf
there's
a
part
of
me.
That
is
deaf.
C
A
B
So
one
of
the
things
that
happened
in
a
conversation
with
Mark
and
other
people
who
use
facilitated
communication,
Tracy,
thresher
being
Tracy
thresher
and
Larry
Bissonnet,
our
two
men
who
started
in
a
movie
called
wretches
and
jabberers
about
It's,
a
Wonderful
movie.
It's
my
favorite
movie
and
I.
Just
last
year
we
watched
it
in
the
bridging
program
and
the
students
all
completely
loved
it.
But
it's
two
men
who
use
facilitated
communication
traveling
the
world
and
meeting
others
who
do
it
or
are
interested
in
it.
C
A
B
A
B
C
B
C
B
On
FC
and
but
I
was
at
a
meeting
with
Tracy
and
Mark.
Oh
Mark
and
Tracy
were
starting
to
hang
out
more
because
they
had
become
friends
through
the
movie
making
process,
process
and
Tracy.
Had
this
comment
he
said
you
know
Mark,
it
sounds
like
you
are
always
having
a
cheer
Emily
up
like
you're,
always
like
her
positive,
you
know,
she's,
not
feeling
you
know.
Yeah
have
this
really
and
it
was
true
Mark
was
you
know
he
was
always
like
cheering
me
on
and
giving
me
good
thoughts
about.
Things
like
this
is
going
to
be.
C
A
A
B
Tracy
looked
at
me
and
he
said:
do
you
have
anything
in
your
life
that
you
can
call
upon
to
help
you
be
more
positive
for
yourself
and
I?
Remember
riding
my
bike:
I
was
living
out
in
Hinesburg
in
this
beautiful
round
house
that
that
was
really
a
bit
in
this
swamp
lands.
It
would
flood
regularly,
but
there
were
ferns
everywhere.
I
was
doing
lots
of
drawing
and
I
was
like.
B
A
B
That's
when
I,
really,
you
know
and
I
guess
this
whole
time
we
were
talking.
We
were
it's,
it's
very
intertwined
how
this
this
work
is
for
me
and
after
I
met
Brian.
Oh,
the
reason
I
was
excited
was
that
Christy
Mitchell,
who
was
the
first
executive
director
of
the
generator
Makerspace?
She
would
often
see
me
at
Wadi,
Muddy
Waters,
with
Mark
typing
and
she's,
like
I,
want
to
do
a
huge
thing
that
support
you
know
shows
these
guys
at
their
best
typing
and
having
smart
people
asking
them
great
questions,
because.
A
A
C
B
B
C
B
I
went,
I,
went
and
saw
my
mother
and
again
it
was
just
like
something
has
happened,
and
then
what
was
great
was
Brian,
was
working
in
the
maple
sugaring
industry
and
and
was
helping
to
oh
they're
they're
laying
lines
for
this
huge
thing
that
was
happening
up
in
Island
Pond.
So
he
was.
He
was
away
a
lot,
so
I
went
so
we
had
a
correspondence
for
like
it
felt
like
forever,
but
I
think
it
was
like
15
days,
and
that
was
such
a
beautiful
correspondence.
C
B
You
know
in
the
morning
I
would
get
a
email
from
him
at
some
point.
I
would
write
him
an
email
and
it
just
went
back
and
forth
and
there
was
one
lost
email
and
there
was
this.
Everything
has
ended
and
then
the
fear
of
have
I
made
this
toy.
You
know,
is
this
person
really
who
I
think
they
are
and
yeah.
B
A
A
B
A
B
This
car
this
came
up
at
Art
Hop.
There
was
a
girl,
a
little
girl
had
you
know
done
the
number
thing
and
she
picked
this
one
and
I
was
just
like
I
said
to
the
mom.
Oh
I
think
this
is
kind
of
an
adult
fairy
like
maybe
my
fairies
are
adult
focused
and
she
said:
oh,
no,
she
totally
doesn't
get
the
amount
of
vitamin
D
she
needs
because
she
doesn't
drink
milk,
and
so
we
actually
have
on
our
list
that
today
we
have
to
buy,
buy
vitamins.
A
A
B
C
A
B
C
C
C
B
A
C
B
A
B
Good
well
I
think
I'll
I'll
continue
to
figure
out
the
the
way
sort
of
my
day
was
funny.
I
with
the
blue,
Bluebird
fairy's
I
went
through
the
Women's
small
business
program
twice
the
first
time
it
was
kind
of
what
you
know
to
figure
out
my
theater
company
and
then
I
it
moved
into.
Oh,
no
I
want
to
find
a
way
to
do
something
with
these
drawings
and
yeah.
I
didn't
have
a
full-time
job
then,
but
then
I
was
given
this
great
opportunity
to
have
this
full-time
job
and
I
by
then
needed
it.
B
B
C
A
C
C
C
A
B
You
know
that
help
them
feel
say
those
good
things
that
we
say
to
other
people,
but
we
don't
say
to
ourselves.
I
felt
like
that
was
the
biggest
message
in
the
fairy
Booth.
Is
we
don't
for
some
reason?
We
don't
learn
this
or
I.
Think
I
feel,
like
you
know,
being
in
exercises
classes
now,
I
feel
like
there
is
a
new
emphasis
on
you're
here
for
you.
You
are
not
here
for
anyone
else,
good.