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On Sunday, Dec. 21, at ■
the end of the longest night of the year, as the light was returning on the Winter Solstice, Julie Portman crossed over.
Julie was an Obieaward w inning playw right, actress, director, storyteller, singer, teacher, and community builder. While she is best known in Rappahannock for her 22 years as founder and artistic director of Ki Theatre, her performances, teachings and inspiration will be her enduring legacy.
Julie believed the world is made up from stories, not from facts—the hidden, not the visible. As her husband. performing partner, co-creator, and one of her many best friends, I’d like to tell a little of her story here in addition to her obituary which appears elsewhere in this paper.
Julie believed in story. No. story was more than what she believed in, it was the foundation, of her life, her work, and her love for people.
Julie looked for the hid1 den light in everyone— their story. She was the deepest of listeners—her listening a.prayer. She took in our stories and reflected them back on us in all their blinding glory. That was and js her light—she helped us see what we have in ourselves—the importance of our stories, that glue of the universe, that emotional «if not factual > geology of our time here.
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