Toshi Seeger Passes
Source: Sing Out!
Toshi-Aline Ohta Seeger, wife of folk music icon Pete Seeger, passed away overnight on Tuesday, July 9th. She was a mother, an organizer, an activist and filmmaker … and an essential part of all of her husband’s work. She was 91.
As much as Pete is a consummate dreamer and optimist, Toshi had a strength and brilliance that was at least his equal. There’s was a true partnership. Without Toshi’s counsel and support, and always outspoken and direct opinions, it’s clear to anyone who ever met these two remarkable people that, without Toshi, Pete would never have had the foundation and freedom to do the work that made him so legendary.
But Toshi, despite her profound wisdom, strength, morality and courage, was also extremely modest and self-effacing. Often rebuffing attention paid to her, and always doing a loving job at making sure that Pete was always grounded and clear about how his work, his missions, were always bigger than a single man or woman.
Toshi was born in Munich, Germany, to an American mother and a Japanese father. Her parents brought her to the U.S. when she was 6 months old, as soon as it became legal for the two to be married here. They found an apartment in New York City, where her father found work as the building’s caretaker.
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Toshi and Pete Seeger are two people that inspired me to get into politics..
Peace and God Bless..
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was ailing. Such a strong and dynamic couple, we thought they'd just go on, you know, forever...
Rest in peace, dear Toshi
to those who have fought for peace........
. . .and as a Clearwater Festival volunteer, I always remember her riding around in the golf cart, coordinating things and holding court at the Litter Picker/Recycling/Zero Waste station.
Of late, I hadn't seen her (due to illness), but apparently she was at the festival a few weeks ago. I received a photo of her with Pete listening to the music, but unfortunately I seem unable to paste a copy of it for here.
She was the rock, the steady ground for Pete's visions of a cleaner, healthier, more peaceful environment, and a better world.
Fair Winds and Safe Passage, Toshi.
They were inspired, in part, by Pete and Toshi's relationship(the name of the song is "Left-Wing Wife"
When the phone began to ring her hands were in the dishes
Her feet were in her slippers and her head was full of wishes
She sighed and dried her hands and took the baby from it's cup
Lifted the receiver but the caller'd given up
She changed the baby's nappy put the dinner on and in
Put the garbage out the laundry and when the phone began again
She quickly ran to answer it and tripped over the toys
Scattered around the kitchen by her tri-bob little boys
She lay there in a daze upon the kitchen floor
She thought about the fighters who get up and come back for more
She thought about his sanity and the book that she was writin'
The phone continued ringing and the kids have started fightin'
She never reached the phone cause the baby started crying
Dinner started burning it was time to do the iron
And then once again the phone began
"May I speak to Earl"
My husband isn't home he's gone out to save the world
The oppressed the underprivileged the exploited and the needy
If you see him tell him "come on home,
His dinner's ready"
