• cathy : thank you everyone for your messages! Katie would read me some of them over the phone as I crawled along. They were inspirational! Heads up that I’m going to cut & paste them onto a new page so to relieve the Chat Box of some of its content.
• guest_4340 : a real nuthead
• guest_1616 : I hear ya, Becky. Well, I want to ask: Did this event achieve the goal of clearing the way forward for Ms Gordon to have a real relationship? The art thing is all well and good, but there was an emotional gosal here as well. Will we find out something about the relative success in achieving that goal?
• cathy : love you MIshann! — you have to go to the bottom of this screen /right hand side at the very bottom there is a link to Previous Entrees - THEN — it will seem like it didn’t work — but it did - you just have to scroll down a long way — it’s all there…. cheers xoxo
• mishann : how do i see the old diary entries? you rock my world btw. xoxo from your hands to your feet!
• mishann : hey cathy -
• ed fielding : btw when’s the feature film coming out?
• ed fielding : Major congraulations on a major achievement that I sadly missed. Love
• becky : i think you can ask questions. just don’t ask them troll-like. you know?
• guest_8768 : This event is crying out for a discussion, but I only see people offering congratulations, not questions. Is there a place where one can ask questions about this event without being called a troll?

Rosalba Martinni : My message got cut off, anyhow, I wanted to finish it by wishing you restful sleep, fast healing, and may it all wash over you with feelings of great joy. I imagine one day we’ll talk about this experience over a glass of wine. Much love, Rosalba

Rosalba Martinni : Lovely, courageous, daring Cathy: Congratulations! You did it! Quite surreal! You were incandescent! So original, yet reminiscent of so many things. It reminded me of a Greek tragedy with your chorus of beautiful bridesmaids surrounding the suffering heroine - you being your own “deus ex machina”. It reminded me of Jesus Christ - your arduous journey, your pained flesh, your cleansing baptism, and finally, your resurrection. But instead of agony you wore a smile on your face. You were s

jen silk : Cathy, you amaze me! i didn’t get a chance to see you in person, but viewed your site. it moved me to tears. carl was right when he said, i think it was cathartic for us as well as you. thankyou. i hope you are recovering well! xo

Carl Wilson : The memory of that will stay with me a long time, Cathy - thanks for a ritual that I think was cathartic for many more of us than just yourself.

Lisa Pijuan-Nomura : When i saw you yesterday, i immediately became choked up with feelings of love and lose, and was just so proud of you. Thank you for your soul and your art..please get some rest today. You have touched me deeply with this piece. xo Lisa

christine : ummm yeah… beautigful … it means beautiful and ful of integrity… yeah.. that’s it. Sure it’s in the dictionary…

christine : Cathy I woke up today crying and laughing. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. If the purpose of art is to affect another you have served arts purpose well. you are beautigful and inspiring. Congradulations I wish you joy joy joy!

Yvonne : I was so happy to be with you yesterday Cathy, so sorry to have missed the end it looked wonderful. my heart and my hands are here for you if you need them. love, Y

Darcy Gordon : Congratulations. Allow yourself enough time to recover. Thank you to all Cathy’s friends that helped her organize and run this event.

Stanley Spencer : “Amazing”, Congradulations - Great ending provide for wonderful beginnings. Enjoy your Freedom(s) . Wishing you Amazing Wonderful Futures ooStan

krista : Just heard the interview on CBC. While I am dehydrating too many apricots. I had to go online to your site and read about ON MY KNEES. After the death of my friend, breaking up with my boyfriend AND asking my husband for a divorce (Who I hadn’t been together with for 4 years all I can say is thank you Cathy. It is just perfect. Now I have to get back to my apricots.

becky : what a beautiful ritual. i took 484 pictures of it. most of them are amazing. i love you, also.

Erin Klee : Oh Cathy… I will be thinking about this for a very long time. Thank you…

Ciara Adams : You are so strong and beautiful! Thank-you Cathy

Scott McMullin : A big Congrats Cathy from Sheffield, UK.

guest_692 : It’s Ovah!

Mom + Dad : Congrats!! You made it!! The bridge + beach fotos popped up about 8pm, shortly after our last say-something. We can’t get the video, hope we get some word on how you are. Love xoxoxox

Mom & Dad : Where are you now at 7:50pm? Have been watching all day in agony for you. Saw your CBC interview Wednesday; you were great! Hope you are already in cool cool cool water - for the bod & soul of our cool youngest. We had a great fair, Canada’s oldest at Williamstown (196th), ending yesterday. xoxoxox

Hilary Martin : Congratulations! I’ve heard of having a divorce party, but this sounds strangely less socially awkward. Glad Katie is there to lend a hand (if not a knee or two). If you’re going to make it an annual event like an anniversary, maybe rollerblades next year. Like you start off with paper and move up to pearl. Best Regards, Hilary

Mayte : Cathy, you are a gutsy lady! Sorry I had to work or I would have secured a “first row view” of your performance. Hope your knees are ok. How is the dress holding up?

Rosemary Rowe : Hi Cathy - I was at Queen & Dovercourt this afternoon PLANNING MY WEDDING and managed to be just on time to catch your divorce. Hope the knees are holding up. You are awesome in every sense.

guest_7009 : We’re watching live from Rio. This just gets more amazing every hour! The verdict from my Brazilian girlfriends is “bem louca, mais bem bacana.” (in other words, very crazy, but very cool.) We’re all thinking of you!! Wendy

dwayne : wow…just…wow…

guest_5663 : You rock my world Cathy! I’ve got some great pictures of you! I hope to see you later!

guest_4747 : Cathy Have been in meetings all day with students. Just managed to get to a computer. Been thinking about you all day. Bless the knees. LoveViv Moore

Erin Klee : Cathy, you are incredible… I’ll rejoin later tonight!

Armen : soudned great on CBC

daniel arcé : this is really fuckin’ intense.

katie k : at the gladstone, signing off - to join the crawl!

chad : Amazing dance, thank you so much for posting it!!!!!!

katie k : Cathy has just left the Gladstone and is on the road again

Lissa Bobrow : Cathy - I would be honoured to make you another “Gastronomic Feast” for you to mark this momentous occasion. Name the time and the food

Misha : Cathy was at the Gladsone, around 4:30. There was a dance performance and then she had a sandwich. Also she got into a bus shelter with a scary dog, and made friends with a little girl.

katie k : Cathy arrived at the Theatre Centre! I’ve been told they’re doing some repairs to her knees - cringe - and then she’ll climb up to the second floor where she’ll meet Steve to sign the divorce papers.

nilan : written in reverse

nilan : and knew a little

nilan : i watched in sobriety

nilan : that your body will hold

nilan : the multiple eyes of the camera will see to the memory

nilan : sundance piercings in the plains

nilan : hindu mortificants in calcutta

nilan : catholic flagellants in spain

derrick chua : sorry i’m stuck in the office and having to follow online rather then in person, but am there in spirit and thanks to modern technology for the opportunity to at least follow this way! go cathy go!

Lissa Bobrow : Cathy, I have been following you while at work and sending lots of love, great vibes and much support! Way to go! I will be there at the end with a tear of joy in my eye.

Adrienne Weiss : Cathy! I am astounded; what you are doing is a tour de force. Saw you at Station 3 in the park, and felt bowled over by your strength.

dianna : i’ve been following online all day! i wish i could see the installation live. thanks for providing this interface.

Rose : This is great! I too will be divorcing after 61/2 yrs at the end of this year. Truly this is something to look up to.

claudi : Hi Cathy, great project. hope your knees and hands and everything will be ok! Love the idea of celebrating divorce. Big hello from Germany!

katie k : Cathy is on her way to Trinity Bellwoods Park, she should be arriving there very shortly.

katie k : Thanks Becky!!

becky : okay, pictures are now up on flickr. it seems to take a while for them to arrive on the site. but if you want them for blogging, katie, they are there. i can’t stop thinking about where cathy is now. i had anxiety dreams on her behalf last night.

Jacoba : It was so powerful to watch you at the first two stations today. I wish I could be there for the rest. I am glad the wedding cake story made you laugh, I have been keeping that one for 8 years! Lots of love to you and so great to see Steve at “Exile”. xoxo

Lissa Bobrow : I am hoping to make it to the end of her journey!

Mccawleywood : You go girl! Hope your knees are okay! Much love. To Steve too!

guest_1995 : Hi Cathy! Go Go Go! You’re amazing and wonderful as usual! LOve. J palmer

katie k : Hi Becky, I just e-mailed the password to your facebook account, in case that is easier for you

becky : yeah, i know. my files are just too big.

katie k : Hi Becky, you can e-mail them to this e-mail address river96needs@photos.flickr.com, and they will automatically upload.

judy mintz : i’m having trouble with the video. it’s not streaming. is it because i’m on dialup out here in the sticks?

judy mintz : i’m sorry i can’t be there, cathy. blessings on your journey. xoxo

becky : actually, i am having trouble with it. if craig or anyone knows cathy’s flickr password and wanted to just email it to me, i could make everything happen faster. this is because i am using a camera not a phone to take pictures.

katie k : thank you for posting photos! Please send more!!

becky : okay, i just got home from seeing cathy start it all off. i’m working on getting my pictures from kensington up now.

katie k : Cathy is leaving Passe Muraille

Armen : yeah, eight hours on your knees.. believe it or not, I can relate to that…

katie : I have heard that Cathy can crawl fast!

scott w : cathy you are the bees knees..get it knees..

sean m. : A-game cathy. A-game.

Gdga : Crawl, Cathy, crawl!

Rob MacKinnon : Go Cathy! Thinking of you and your sore knees…

katie k : thank you for your positive thoughts and encouragement - Cathy is a brave soul!!

Mo : Crawl strong Cathy!! This is such a cool project and you sounded great on Metro Morning today. Good luck!

Sabrina : See you soon Cathy! Lots of love…

Shelley : Can’t wait to see you at 2:00! I could not even sleep last night I was up all night thinking of you. I hope that YOU slept enough and that today you feel like ten million dollars. lots of love girl xoxox

katie k : Good Morning Everybody! Welcome to Cathy’s website on the day of her monumental crawl!! Please share you thoughts and if you’re able to meet her at some point along her route, take pictures w/ your cellphone and e-mail it to the flikr address listed below the photos to the right of this column!

Kristen : On my way to see you at Exhile. Go go go!

Armen : Watching from my air-conditioned office, sitting comfortably on my ass. But, um, yeah.. with you in spirit my love…

Rogdon Trash : That should be ‘o’ not ‘e’ and the bad line should have been “- Through seven stations, all them, seize -”. Now its 11am, keep plugging away !!! xoxox

chad : YAAAAHHHHH!!!! You’re amazing. I may be working but all my thoughts are with you.

Scott McMullin : Cathy, Good Luck and “Break a Knee” today, really wish I could be there!!!

Carl : Onward and downward: And so it begins. The day of days. Best wishes on the journey & see you on the other side!

Darcy Gordon : The day is finally here. The weather is good…the time is right. It’s original (which is nothing new for you). I’ll be checking in from time to time to see how you are doing. Congratulations on a special and unique way to bring closure to this phase of your life. On to the next!

jvb : onward Cathy You are on mine and all of our minds today!!!!

I have a wagon : Marry me? (when you’re done)

Rogden Trash : Onward you sweat with every pore -To push attachments out the door -to be washed away at murmuring shore - And, lo, to let your future soar.

Rogden Trash : Through seven stations all that seize’Memories of bliss an pain. Shelve them please.

Rogden Trash : Past roring traffic, towers and trees

Rogden Trash : Today you go with bleeding knees,

guest_6657 : I think this is great, everything (marrage, divorce, coming of age) has losts its rituality its all just “sign here please” and its done. We as a society need to develop our own rituals to replace the ones we have lost from the past. We need a sense of person and being.

jenn goodwin : Cathy!! wishing you luck today… will check on line from Vienna later with a group of my class mates here. we will be cheering you on and sending you good vibes, and knee support xoxo

Brian Kitchell : soft white cloth/ hard grey stone/ rough reddened knees/ cool pale hands/ / a dance re-imagined/ a spirit spiralling back to/ a journey that waits for the next turning/ an author who is her story/ / Magnificent Cathy, you are and it will be. I’ll see you in the morning. I love the way you’ve chosen to dance.

Billguest_8664 : Good Luck but I beleve with your talent and fortitude you could create something more positive & for others and less intimidating for others that are truly in love and have the desire and stamina to work problems out - unless I miss the entire concept.

Sarah Stanley : thinking about you, your knees, and this incredible event. thanks. art just got a little bit lower, a little bit slower in the raging pace of the melting metropolis. yay art, yay artists, yay you!

sara peel : break a leg. ha! thinking of you.

Yvonne : Get some sleep girl! We’ll see you in the mornin’!xoxoxoxoxo

Emily : I adore you.

katie : I’m thinking about you.

guest_7543 : Wow. Just wow. This is quite possibly the most amazing, creative, and insane performance piece ever. You are brilliant. I will be thinking of you tomorrow from Rio de Janeiro!! Grande abraços! Wendy

guest_3653 : you are the truest person I know. What a momentous day for you. smile hardy. -Armen

cathy : Thank you all so much - Becky, Donna, John, and thanks for including the happy face #5913! It’s all going to be over by this time tomorrow. Or at least I hope I’ll be done…

becky : this is going to happen!

guest_5913 : this is a publicity stunt. you guys are ridiculous

Donna Lypchuk : I’ll be there welcoming you to the water Cathy…

john delacourt : Cathy - you’re such a star. You continue to astonish and inspire.

alison : what an amazing idea. I just read about your art piece in the paper today and loved the idea of “ritualizing” your divorce. What a inventive way of closing a chapter and moving on to the next.

guest_6441 : Gosh girl, are you really that hard up for a little publicity??

guest_8092 : Safe journey Cathy!

lo : i wish you well, i’ll see you around 5:30pm, will be thinking of you and sending healing vibrations… hope it helps!

guest_6070Rosalba : Dearest Cathy

guest_6070 : Thank you so much for inviting me to be part of this remarkable event. I am profoundly sorry I cannot make it, but I will catch some of it. I imagine this spectacle (and I mean that in the most positive of ways) will be cathartic and healing not only for you but also for anyone who watches who has ever crawled, suffered, and bled for someone they loved, for years that feel wasted, wounds that remain raw. I congratulate you and I love you. Rosalba

Erin Klee : Cathy! I’m really looking forward to your crawl… I’ll miss the very beginning, but I’ll be there from mid-afternoon onward. Is there anything I can do to help? ~e

cathy : thanks Helen - see you Monday

Helen Donnelly : This is such a gutsy, original and goofily moving piece of performance theatre! I love, love love it and hope to see you Monday!

cathy : If you can make it by 7:30pm. Thank you so much Jim!

Jim : Looks like I might be able to make it for a while on Monday, though not near the beginning. I hope you’re still going when I get there. Best o’ luck!

cathy : thanks Greg! hope Montreal is treating you right!

greg mac : keep on truckin’

cathy : thank you Natalie! I so appreciate getting these stories - it’s amazing!

Natalie : Just saw your interview,and thought how much I admire what you are doing!I have separated from my husband of 12 years,and the process has been at times grueling,though necessary for happiness.Wishing you the best!I am also with you in spirit!

cathy : thanks Dad (and Mom)!

Mom & Dad : What a heck of a way to treat a beautiful wedding dress, your poor knees & your loving hands. We will go to the Club or Jack’s Pub to access your CBC interview today (Wed) at 4:45pm. Take care. Lots of love.

cathy : Thank you for your message Ruth! And Vanda! And thanks Yvonne, that massage was so lovely and so needed… I’m loving all this loving! thank you…

Ruth : We don’t know each other but… Dear God this is reminiscent of my own life! I am in the midst of a divorce after 9 years of marriage and two kids. I will be crawling with you in spirit!! Sadly I’ll be in Winnipeg that day, but I will definitely log on. Rock on sister!

Yvonne : Let me massage your poor wrists!

Vanda : underworld…sorry for the typo

Vanda : The planet Venus is retrograde sice July 27 and starts her descent into the ubderworld on August 13 where she will die,transforms and be reborn

cathy : Steve! It’s awesome! Thanks Tanya! And Sabrina, I’m so glad it’s all going to work out. Maybe you’ll be in a tree?

Steve : Hey, it’s done. The remix is ready.

Sabrina : Cathy, I’m so honoured to be a part of this.

tanya pillay : you’re so cool! your poor hands and knees…

guest_9560 : It is pretty amazing. Love the pictures already. Hope to be able to cross your crawling path on Monday. Good luck.

Chad Dembski : Getting excited for this, I’m not booking anything else on this day except 100% Cathy time.

melissa : you are a force…this looks stupendously awesome…just had to give you props. Aces.

Erin Klee : Oh Cathy… You are divine. I’ll be there… ~ e

cathy : you should! somehow make it into something for yourself

mcbain : i think you’re inspiring me to do something with it

mcbain : i have an engagement ring that was returned to me.

scott : awesome..project awesome..site…can’t wait to see you crawling on your knees : )

Katie : website looks great! can’t believe it’s less than two weeks away now!

cathy : launching today… !!

cathy : either The Theatre Centre or DNA - both are charitable organizations

guest_3163 : Who is issuing the tax recipts for the donations?

guest_7871 : i work at nts

becky : also, last night i was talking to aitor about your project and i started to get all choked up. i find that amazing because i don’t even like art.

shelley : Considering that I was there the first time round I can hardly wait to decide if you dance better on your knees to your old wedding song…all the best - can’t wait till the real day!

cathy : yes! of course

becky : i want to see those pictures i took of you crawling around last night. i’m very new to this ‘telephone photography’ form but felt kind of happy with some of them.

cathy : great! I’ll look forward to discovering your identity Guest 4103! You can type in your name in the Name Field or if you want to stay anonymous, you can send me a note through the Contact option. But I’m very excited that you wrote on the wall! ox

guest_4103 : I can join you for part of the route. Wouldn’t miss it

cathy : oh dear! it seems we’re having some trouble with the video diary section… well we still have some time before the launch on August 1st — party details to come.

cathy : come back for the website launch on August 1st — party details to come — then visit back for the big show on August 13