Oct. 13, 2020 — In Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, the spirit of RBG is looming large. “Should I be confirmed,” Judge Barrett has said, “I will be mindful of who came before me. She was a woman of enormous talent and consequence, and her life of public service serves as an example to us all.”
Since RBG’s passing, two different Cardies sent us remarkable reminders that serve to prove the wondrous point of our new grief support card.
California attorney Paige Baker emailed, “I’ve sent RBG cards to 10 women friends as well as my daughter (my hero) and wrote in each card, ‘She inspired us in her lifetime and she empowers us now. You have inspired me.'” Paige then shared this photo taken back in 2018.
I was invited to a dinner at the US Supreme Court because I had been president of a large organization of judges and lawyers that was being honored — so exciting!” Paige explained. “While in Washington, also got to the National Portrait Gallery, where my husband took this pic of me with The Supremes :-) Standing there, I thought back to my first trial by myself, in 1993. It was right after RBG was appointed to the Court.”
A few days after the email from Paige — and on the day of RBG’s funeral — Cardie Mauri Truesdell emailed us from her home in Missouri. Her subject line was, “Remembering RBG” and below was this breathtaking photo.
Mauri wrote, “As I was leaving Shaw Nature Reserve this morning, I saw this spider web. It reminded me so much of RBG’s beautiful lace collars. I shot the picture, got in my car, and turned on the radio just in time to hear RBG’s eulogy given by her rabbi. I felt so blessed to have felt RBG’s presence in nature here today!”
It was Cardie Amy Beamer Murray who inspired us to create the new flying cardinal card. When she first introduced herself to our community, Amy mentioned that our original cardinal card was one of her favorites. “Before my dad passed away,” she explained, “I had never heard that, to some, cardinals represent our loved ones who have passed. The winter after my dad died, my backyard feeders were polluted with cardinals — and my sister told me the story.
“Ever since then, when someone loses a loved one,” Amy said, “I send that card about three months later as part of what I call ‘after care.’ After the funeral has long since passed, and the phone calls are fewer and farther between, and there hasn’t been a sign of a floral arrangement or casserole in weeks — but the burden of grief is still so heavy that you can physically feel it — that’s when I send the cardinal card.”
We found Amy’s compassion so powerful that we took it as our cue to create this second version of the cardinal, with grief support in mind this time. Amy, Mauri, Paige, RBG, beautiful cardinals … may they prompt us to reach out and lift the spirits of those who cherish messengers in all their amazing forms.
Jodee Stevens
Founder & Chief Creative
I have many cardinals visiting my yard. I always assumed they liked the fact that my yard is bird friendly because it has a 4 station bird buffet of various seeds & suet.
I didn’t know that when a cardinal appears in my yard it is a visitor from heaven. How nice! I’ll say hello next time. I love your BEAUTIFUL CARDINAL CARD!