Pilar Walsh Memorial

Assembled by Fayra Teeters

From daughter Amalia Moore’s recent Facebook posting:

My mother courageously endured a long journey with cancer but continued to inspire us all with her many talents, art, writing, and jewelry. I witnessed first hand the joy it brought her to receive all your messages of love, prayers, memories, and support this last year. It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to hold her hand and love her as she peacefully transitioned to be with her angels and beloved God.

From Pilar’s bio posted in SICA’s Legacy Gallery:

Pilar Walsh, a SAG-AFTRA actress, singer, dancer, writer, filmmaker, and producer, worked many years in TV, film, and stage. Some highlights of her career include playing Liza Minnelli on MAD-TV, performing opposite Ken Page in Man of La Mancha, working on the Indie film Dog Barks opposite Michael Costello, and dancing and singing in Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, plus Cabaret, Pippin and The Musical of Musicals in Hawaii. She worked with Alec Baldwin and Annette Bening on Running with Scissors, and Kathy Najimi on Hope Floats. She performed her own Cabaret Show in Seattle and Los Angeles: Mostly Sondheim and a Little Lloyd-Weber.

She self-published a book of poetry: Essentials: Words, Rhymes and a Story or Two. Her poems are published in two poetry anthologies, Circle Dance and The God’s Eye. She published her book How I Survived the Sixties in 2012. She wrote and produced the screenplay Trolley to Lumina; a link is posted onto the SICA website.

In 2008, she moved to the other side of the camera with a documentary film The Eternal Rhythm – a Global Revelation of Drum, Dance and Song. To promote this screenplay, she wrote, produced, and co-directed a showcase reel: How I Survived the Sixties. In 2012 in New York, she made a short film: I Was a Teenage Cough Syrup Junkie. She was cast in Marsha Norman’s play ‘Night Mother ‘ for the Cape Fear Playhouse.

Ending on a note of absolute inspiration, her final poem:

My Journey’s End

By Pilar Walsh

Oh, God in Heaven, living in every cell of my body
I am deeply humbled by your power and love.
I am just a dot, this speck of life, a woman’s mantle I wear
Within this fleshy envelope, fitting like a human glove.

I am particles of light and dark but sometimes
I am capable of shining just for you . . . and others
Ever growing, ever changing, continuously evolving
Very much like all my sisters and brothers.

As the capacious silent tree grows from a precious acorn
It is your presence in my pain-molded life making me whole.
While wanting, pining for temporary things of this world
You guide me to embrace the inevitable unseen, our final goal.

And in quiet moments, if I’m lucky, I will let go, surrender
All that belongs to you, gifts bestowed to me on loan
So, at the end of this earthly journey, vibrating with love
My soul will begin the immersion into your blessed, eternal home.