January 30
January 30
Remembering you dear Phyllis with love, all your friends at Kaji Aso Studio
In accordance with her wishes, Phyllis was cremated at Mount Auburn Cemetery in a private family ceremony on Thursday, February 2nd.
A remembrance and celebration of Phyllis' life was held on Sunday, February 5th, at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge. Phyllis' family wishes to express our warm appreciation to the many friends and family who attended the ceremony.
Phyllis' obituary appeared on page B12 of The Boston Globe on Friday, February 3rd.
Phyllis' story was also featured in an April 23, 2009 New York Times article: "Advances Elusive in the Drive to Cure Cancer," written by Gina Kolata.
Condolences may be sent to Phyllis' family at:
10 Kelly Road, Cambridge, MA 02139
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a contribution to one of the following organizations supported by Phyllis:
The Oneness Family School: International Peace Academy in Washington, D.C.
The Massachusetts Audubon Society
The Kaji Aso Studio, in Boston
The Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, in Cambridge
"Life and death are of supreme importance.
Time passes swiftly and opportunity is lost.
Let us awaken
awaken...
Do not squander your life."
-Zen Night Chant
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August 10, 2023
August 10, 2023
We always will remember you, dear Phyllis....
August 10, 2022
August 10, 2022
Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday. Unseen, unheard, but always near, so loved, so missed, so very dear.
xoxo
xoxo
February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022
Love you Mama.
January 30, 2022
January 30, 2022
Dear P,
Already 10 years! And it doesn't seem like that, because I think of you really often, and for so many different reasons...
Meeting you and living in your house has been one of the most enriching experiences of my life, and I am so grateful for the time spent together!
With love,
Ale
Already 10 years! And it doesn't seem like that, because I think of you really often, and for so many different reasons...
Meeting you and living in your house has been one of the most enriching experiences of my life, and I am so grateful for the time spent together!
With love,
Ale
August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
Prior to writing this note I took the opportunity once again to read the many remembrances. Inspiring.
I knew Phyllis through Loren, whom I've known since childhood, and was always moved by the joy that emanated from them as a couple. May the fond memories of Phyllis continue to sustain Loren, her children and family, and all those whose lives she enriched.
I knew Phyllis through Loren, whom I've known since childhood, and was always moved by the joy that emanated from them as a couple. May the fond memories of Phyllis continue to sustain Loren, her children and family, and all those whose lives she enriched.
April 4, 2021
April 4, 2021
I have been thinking about Phyllis a lot lately. She was such an amazing human and I could spend all day listening to her and her philosophy of life. I am for sure a better person for knowing her. She was a beautiful soul. Thinking of her and holding her family in my thoughts.
January 30, 2021
January 30, 2021
Dear Phyllis, Thinking of you and your indomitable spirit. With love, all your friends at Kaji Aso Studio
January 30, 2019
January 30, 2019
Phylly
Your spirit spreads its wings over us during these troubled times . These many years I have missed you I keep your words and your love in my heart and try to be the person you believed in.
Your spirit spreads its wings over us during these troubled times . These many years I have missed you I keep your words and your love in my heart and try to be the person you believed in.
January 30, 2018
January 30, 2018
The eagle we named Phyllis and her partner are now seen readying their nest in anticipation of new life this spring. We remember Phyllis with love and gratitude for her kind and strong example. She continues to be a blessing to the universe.
January 30, 2018
January 30, 2018
Hard to believe it’s 6 years without my dear friend
January 30, 2018
January 30, 2018
Dear Phyllis, On January 23, 2018 my friend Don, died of ALS- a long and slow loss of all functions. He was a determined spirit and at the end still using his thumb to text -speak. Like you he approached his illness with a warmth and an open heart. Along with my grief for him was an acute sense of the loss of you - my dear sweet friend. I remembered your bravery, your kindness, and in my mind turn to you for guidance.
Don was still telling jokes on his way out of the world. He will add wonderful energy to the cosmos.
You are ever with me. I miss you
Don was still telling jokes on his way out of the world. He will add wonderful energy to the cosmos.
You are ever with me. I miss you
January 30, 2018
January 30, 2018
Yet another poem inspired by our beloved friend:
MOON DRUMMER
in memoriam Phyllis Kutt 1947-2012
The full moon brings her back.
Each month, we watch her,
the moon drummer now,
rising out of the sea.
Carrying the frame drum moon,
she dances all night across the sky—
a kiss in passing for Cassiopeia,
a kiss of silvery light for us,
her lovers, standing on the shore
where her shimmering path beckons.
We turn our faces to her
just as we always did.
We step into her reflection,
float on waves of her light,
just as we always have.
with love,
Lucile
MOON DRUMMER
in memoriam Phyllis Kutt 1947-2012
The full moon brings her back.
Each month, we watch her,
the moon drummer now,
rising out of the sea.
Carrying the frame drum moon,
she dances all night across the sky—
a kiss in passing for Cassiopeia,
a kiss of silvery light for us,
her lovers, standing on the shore
where her shimmering path beckons.
We turn our faces to her
just as we always did.
We step into her reflection,
float on waves of her light,
just as we always have.
with love,
Lucile
February 10, 2017
February 10, 2017
Phyllis Dear Phyllis and her Dear Family Thinking of you all with Love, Billie
January 30, 2017
January 30, 2017
Dear Phyllis, We always think of you and the loving example of peace and beauty you lived life with. Thank you always for being a shining light. - your friends at Kaji Aso Studio
August 10, 2016
August 10, 2016
Miss you P! Lucile and I celebrated your life tonight! Would love to hear your comments on this election! Would love to get tips on styling thin hair. Just miss your laugh!
January 31, 2016
January 31, 2016
I loved going to Aunt Phyllis house as a child. There was always a warm smile and a gentle hug. She always welcomed everyone into her home in the same manner. Her sense of humor made me laugh and smile still this many years later as I remember things she would say and do. I am fortunate enough to spend time with her children and grandchildren whom reminds me of her in so many ways! Miss you Aunt P, but I am blessed I get to receive the same love from Holly and Chad every time I see them. Love you!
January 30, 2016
January 30, 2016
Good morning P. Not a day passes where you are not in my heart, soul, and thoughts. Can you believe I'm in my third year at CRLS? I see the smile! Talk to you soon.
January 30, 2016
January 30, 2016
To Phyllis: Remembering your beautiful smile, heart and art.
- your friends at Kaji Aso Studio
- your friends at Kaji Aso Studio
August 11, 2015
August 11, 2015
Always in my heart. On August 29, 2015, during my wedding, there will be a special prayer for you P. Love, Ale
August 10, 2015
August 10, 2015
Remembering Phyllis with the beautiful sunlight of today.
- all her friends at Kaji Aso Studio
- all her friends at Kaji Aso Studio
February 1, 2015
February 1, 2015
Dear P, may your example guide our lives!
February 1, 2015
February 1, 2015
Phyllis continues to inspire and support me in my life. I feel her holding my hand now that I have metastatic breast cancer. What a shining soul she is.
January 30, 2014
January 30, 2014
Forever remembered and loved. - your Kaji Aso Studio family
January 30, 2014
January 30, 2014
What a vibrant and joyful and funny and warm being Phyllis was, and though we knew each other only a short time, she has helped me as I go through metastatic cancer treatment, as I remember her wonderful example of living a day at a time.
January 30, 2014
January 30, 2014
I pause today to remember a great friend. We had so many wonderful conversations, laughs, meals, and experiences together. Nothing can replace those times but the memories remain a source of support and comfort to me. I send love and continued strength to Loren, Holly, Chad and his fine family, and the many friends who will always miss Phyllis.
January 30, 2014
January 30, 2014
Two years has past.
she still around.
Lighting our memories.
Of great moments together.
Great family of love.
Guided by the holly spirit.
Joined by laughs and light.
Love is in the air.
My love to Loren, Chad, Holly, Edna, Alex and Isabela.
she still around.
Lighting our memories.
Of great moments together.
Great family of love.
Guided by the holly spirit.
Joined by laughs and light.
Love is in the air.
My love to Loren, Chad, Holly, Edna, Alex and Isabela.
January 30, 2014
January 30, 2014
Phyllis,
I stare as someone walks in front of me, straight and tall, someone with your poise and grace who reminds me of you.
I hear your warm and contagious laughter from a woman who sounds like you.
I watch as yet another walks towards me, someone with your beauty and likeness.
They bring you back and I rejoice as I watch and listen and I say, "Hi, P."
I stare as someone walks in front of me, straight and tall, someone with your poise and grace who reminds me of you.
I hear your warm and contagious laughter from a woman who sounds like you.
I watch as yet another walks towards me, someone with your beauty and likeness.
They bring you back and I rejoice as I watch and listen and I say, "Hi, P."
August 12, 2013
August 12, 2013
I think of Phyllis and her mom Helen all the time. Two woman that have touched my life. Very special people.
August 12, 2013
August 12, 2013
AS I was reading the tribute from Ginny, I felt like expressing my self about Phyllis. As several people here mentioned, she was really a special human been. So positive and friendly. I always remember her. How fun she was, how friendly she was. I miss her a lot. She was and still beenvery special to me. I was luck to meet her on my life. RIP with the angels my friend.
August 11, 2013
August 11, 2013
Dearest Phyllis,
Miss you so very much. I will keep taking strides to be a better person, touch lives positively, and share beauty. As I embark on this next journey in my life, you will be right there with me, as always encouraging and supportive. Love you!
Miss you so very much. I will keep taking strides to be a better person, touch lives positively, and share beauty. As I embark on this next journey in my life, you will be right there with me, as always encouraging and supportive. Love you!
August 11, 2013
August 11, 2013
As the years go by I still think of you often and miss you Phylly. Every time I go into Central Square I think of our last lunch together. You are always in my heart and in Jose's.
June 26, 2013
June 26, 2013
Last Friday at the Shivabalayogi retreat, during med., I had a distinct hit of P s presense, more distilled and potent. She seemed to be meditating right beside me as she did in 2012, only more adept.Later I mentioned the feeling to Mryganka, S s translator. She said" Phyllis was unique, and was the greatest human being I have ever met."I got chills as she said it...Peter Kutt
May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013
Happy Mothers Day Mama. Oh how I miss you.
March 8, 2013
March 8, 2013
I had her my sophomore year at HHS and she was such a sweet spirited woman. I checked an email account yesterday that i hadnt checked in about 6 years. I found a few emails from her; A few asking how i had been and one telling me that her cancer had returned. I immediately responded praying that everything was alright. Then I found out she passed :( She will always be missed and remembered
February 1, 2013
February 1, 2013
I miss you, Phyllis. I remember you smiling in Chad's kitchen, funny, open, and kind.
February 1, 2013
February 1, 2013
I can't believe it's been a year, I can still feel her warm, positive energy around me. I have a gorgeous purple hydrangea painting from her, it serves as a constant reminder of her beauty and strength! Miss you P.
February 1, 2013
February 1, 2013
Thank you for sending this Holly, It is so sweet to remember Phyllis which I do regularly. Her meditation practice continues to inspire me and so often remember her when doing walking meditation which Phyllis and I did so many times together. Best regards to all of the family that I met and also to those I did not meet.
January 31, 2013
January 31, 2013
I miss you and am regularly helped by you to keep my own life effort strong and hopeful..
January 31, 2013
January 31, 2013
That radient smile, those sparkling eyes and warm heart. Now and always we learn from a life well lived. You are here in our hearts, with love always.
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
We have photos of Phyllis on the refrigerator and I am reminded every day of her presence (still) in my life. I miss her but feel her spirit always. I am in Brazil today--a place we had often talked of going together--and I honor her powerful life on the anniversary of her death. I'll feel our mutual love for each other always. I send my love to all her wonderful family and our friends
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
NIGHT WALK (new poem; I didn't know at first it would be about P.)
I walk alone accompanied
by winter’s bright stars
that may be dead by now
their light still coming to us.
Are you out there, released
from the body into star stuff
lighting my way
in the indifferent dark?
I walk alone accompanied
by winter’s bright stars
that may be dead by now
their light still coming to us.
Are you out there, released
from the body into star stuff
lighting my way
in the indifferent dark?
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
Today I am thinking of my sweet, kind, and wise friend Phyllis, and all those people whose lives were transformed by her being.
Last year, 2012 on this day I was driving home to N C after leaving P and family when I saw this beautiful GREEN SHOOTING STAR
Pass across my windshield. The time was 8:24 pm...
Last year, 2012 on this day I was driving home to N C after leaving P and family when I saw this beautiful GREEN SHOOTING STAR
Pass across my windshield. The time was 8:24 pm...
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
What a force P was in this world! Vibrant, passionate, kind, generous, beautiful, spiritual, wise, funny, artistic, fearless, and loving. I loved her beautiful blue eyes. Loey, I am sending love to you and your family today and everyday. Love, Jennifer
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
Escape
An awesome spectre greets the soul,
Strangers entranced by powers
Unmet but not unknown.
A meteor of light to one who walks so well in the dark.
Alluring, invisible precipice so long at my side,
Now seen,
Now understood.
The light moves out over the infinite.
An awesome spectre greets the soul,
Strangers entranced by powers
Unmet but not unknown.
A meteor of light to one who walks so well in the dark.
Alluring, invisible precipice so long at my side,
Now seen,
Now understood.
The light moves out over the infinite.
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
Phyllis has come into my awareness a number of times this week...I continue experiencing gratitude for the blessing of her beautiful heart and Spirit, touching me in so many ways over the years that I knew her. God bless her soul eternally.
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
I continue to think of Phyllis so much. In my meditation corner, I keep the beautiful card she painted near the candles, and I invite her beautiful, peaceful, and inspiring spirit to help guide me. I think of her when I read a wonderful book, when I read Mary Oliver's new book of poetry, when I hear opera, when I laugh at something really offbeat...and during the election. love, peace
January 28, 2013
January 28, 2013
Dear Phyllis,
My wife and I send our thoughts and prayers in rememberance of you, especially this week. You touched our lives greatly in the few, all-too brief occasions we had the opportunity to spend time with you in Cambridge and Cape Verde. Thank you, Phyllis. Knowing you has made our lives so much richer.
My wife and I send our thoughts and prayers in rememberance of you, especially this week. You touched our lives greatly in the few, all-too brief occasions we had the opportunity to spend time with you in Cambridge and Cape Verde. Thank you, Phyllis. Knowing you has made our lives so much richer.
January 28, 2013
January 28, 2013
Dear missed friend Phyllis I hope you are with the gods and having fun, as usual.
We all Miss you. Ricardo< Eliana and Hugo
We all Miss you. Ricardo< Eliana and Hugo
November 3, 2012
November 3, 2012
I just found out today that Phyllis passed.... we were in a painting class together for several terms (connected to the Kaji Aso Studio)..... what I remember about Phyllis was her amazing determination to heal and to find joy in every moment she was healing...she faced her problems so head on and taught her ways of healing... thanks, Phyllis... Namaste....
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Remembering you dear Phyllis with love, all your friends at Kaji Aso Studio
August 10, 2023
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We always will remember you, dear Phyllis....
August 10, 2022
August 10, 2022
Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday. Unseen, unheard, but always near, so loved, so missed, so very dear.
xoxo
xoxo
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January 30, 2021
I think of you and your mom very often. Truly all I have met in your family, are wonderful people. I think of you Phyllis every day when I look at the Irish soap dish you got me long ago. I have it on my kitchen sink :)
I also miss your mom so very much. She was very special to me. I hope you both are with Jan and having lots of laughs. Until I see you all again.
xoxo
I also miss your mom so very much. She was very special to me. I hope you both are with Jan and having lots of laughs. Until I see you all again.
xoxo
April 3, 2014
I am sorry to say I am just finding out about this sad news now.
Ms. Kutt was my homeroom teacher at Lawrence School.
It is a familiar trope to say that teachers leave an indelible impression on their students but in reality this is only true for a very select and special few. Ms. Kutt was one of those teachers for me. Ms. Kutt was very supportive of my weird childhood obsession with opera and was the first person to point me towards the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde which she loved. That led to my life-long obsession with Richard Wagner.No doubt there are countless other former pupils whose lives have been similarly shaped by this unique woman.
The eagles have landed
August 10, 2013
I miss you, Phyllis, especially when I hear the beat of drums. I expect you to be turning up soon to sit across or next to me in a drum circle at Omega.
Your presence is here, however, at Tale of the Hawk Farm. Last year two eagles landed in a pine tree across from Omega's beach but on our farm. We named the female after you and the male after another friend who died in February. So these two bald eagles, Phyllis & Phil, built a nest together in 2012 and stayed awhile and then flew away.
But,...this year in January 2013 they returned. Their white heads and tails were whiter because they were 5 years old now and mature. We watched them add on to the previous year's nest, making it bigger. Then, Phyllis sat and sat and sat very patiently while Phil flew in and brought meals. On Easter Sunday, March 31st, 2013 she had a boy and a girl eaglet. We visited the nest almost every day. Now, the eaglets are larger than their parents and can fly and hunt on their own, but Phyllis is still watching over them and us.