I’d like to to thank everyone for visiting my blog here, and enjoying my digital scrapbook of all things related to these lovely woods, the Firefly Forest, and The Gnomist. Sadly, I’m between surgeries number 2 & 3 and my ability to get to the trail and make my way along it are now gone. I wish I could say goodbye, but….
A sudden switch in jobs is causing a move across country, and as I won’t fully recover before moving, it is with great sadness that I must post that I will not likely even be able to see my trail again. I will continue to post what people send, perhaps find new woods to chronicle (of course I will, I’m rarely out of the woods except at the moment!) and post other old photos of the project from 2013 and 2014, but it’s not looking like I’ll get to stay here long enough to have the 3rd surgery and recover sufficiently to ever get back to this particular trail. Apologies for sounding pitiable, I am just very sad about it. If you’ve read this blog or seen The Gnomist from afar, you’ll understand the depth of that with full knowledge that I don’t post this lightly or for pity.
Farewell, my beloved woods. I take your acorns to foreign turf in hopes I can nurture a Kansas Oak far away. Thank you, everyone.
The Firefly Forest 
Good luck in your new endeavors.
Thank you! Hopefully I’ll find more pictures to post here. This puts me in a very bad position, medically, but not much I can do about that and I feel the loss of my trail the most keenly of all.
I am touched so deeply by this entire story…just reading of it for the first time today…I am overwhelmed by so many feelings about things I saw in the film…most of all, by your extraordinary generosity of heart…your empathy and love…your kindness and willingness to secretly give of yourself, seeking no applause or attention. I am a better person for knowing this small bit of your story…so thank you for sharing yourself with life at large, and me in particular. I send you love and light and prayers for your full recovery in every health issue that challenges you (or ever does in the future). You are an angel on this earth, (although you may not realize it)…you truly are. May God bless you beyond your wildest imaginings, as well as your wonderful sons who have certainly experienced the magic amidst the pain. I am honored to know of you and the Firefly Forest…SIncerely! I only wish it could have lasted forever in Overland Park so that others could continue to be touched by your tenderness….Wait…suddenly I am reminded that I would never have seen it if it were only in Kansas, it is a worldwide phenomenon now…and so, I will dry my tear stained eyes and realize that perhaps this season of change was necessary to come, in order that the whole world could know of the magical Firefly Forest that changes people from mere mortals into heartfully reconstructed believers?!! XOXO
Thank you. Nothing I did was in the film other than this blog….I just did everything else because I had no hope for myself and wanted others at least to have some. But don’t worry, people are continuing to carry it on.
I wonder if anyone has the words to the poem lost and found Fire Fly Forest would appreciate this for my grandchildren thankyou
I typed it up on here somewhere, but am not terribly good with the WordPress format as well as being on mobile at the moment. I’ll try to find it later if you haven’t found it in a search by then.
Thankyou for your quick response,I have searched for the poem with no luck I had already been on the website before contacting you with ,without success.thankyou Kate
Still on mobile out of town, but here’s the link from where I typed it out. https://fireflyforestwatcher.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/lost-and-found-in-firefly-forest/
I should add that Robyn is (maybe has by now?) having a book made of it as well.
Thankyou so much for following up for my request for a copy of the poem, it was very much appreciated,I have copied it ,to give to my grandchildren, thankyou again Kate.
You’re very welcome, I didn’t know when I posted it what would come of that, The Gnomist hadn’t come out yet, Robyn hasn’t moved, I hope she doesn’t mind it being posted here with a book coming out, though we all read it in the film, so the text is shared already. I’m glad it was, those copies she made were so lovely and we cried with joy reading it.