Oh, dear beloved Windsong, gentle and mighty spirit, you are dearly loved and will be missed by all who knew you. Here are some of the many golden strands of your life story. Julie M. “Windsong” Kervick gently journeyed home to Spirit, with her family and fr iends around her, on February 21, 2025. Windsong was born on April 4, 1937, in New York City to a young mother, unable to care for her. She was placed in an orphanage, where she lived for a year before she was adopted. In an article written about her, Windsong said her experience at the orphanage served to make her “a compassionate person who could, firsthand and with clarity, understand what abuse and neglect can do to one’s mind and body.” As an adult, Windsong dedicated her life to assisting others in their healing journeys, holistically. Adopted by Chester T. and Persis McClennen Lane, Windsong spent her early years in McLean, Va., and Nyack, N.Y., where she studied piano from a young age with Jho Waxman. As a teen she designed sets for school and local theatre productions, performed in numerous musical and non-musical plays and was voted “Most Artistic” upon her graduation from Nyack High School in 1955. The family spent summers on Pleasant Bay on Cape Cod, where she was enrolled privately at a young age with renowned artist Vernon Smith. While further pursuing her art at Skidmore College and the Boston Museum Art School, she studied sculpture and began her lifelong love of pottery. She was an integral part of the community at Shelburne Craft School for many years and a longtime craft seller at the Waldorf Christmas Fair. After college, she toured the country in a VW bus with her first husband before they settled in Vermont. They parted when their child, Tucker, was two, and Windsong parented her son alone. Being mother to Tucker was Windsong’s pride and joy. They shared a love of adventure and travel and had wonderful trips together over the years. She often spoke of how proud she was of his accomplishments and that he was a great husband to Natalya and a fabulous dad to Zander. Windsong was so delighted to spend time with Zander during the almost-five years of his life journey so far, delighting in the video photo album set up by his parents for her. While raising her son, Windsong became a respected mind-body practitioner and was a leader and organizer in Vermont’s holistic health movement in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Drawn to working with her hands, she studied massage and Trager Psychophysical… ...read more read less