Kate Leotta

Life Experiences:
I am a Daughter, Girlfriend, Sister, Friend, Woman, Film and TV Artist. I am a Person with empathy. I am open and non-judgemental. I am learning Public Speaking and volunteering my time helping community to live better and die well. I am a lifelong Student.
I was a: Wife, Carer, Teacher Aide, Children's Services, Community Services, Disability and Aged Care, Retail volunteer and paid Worker and In-home Respite Carer, Landcare volunteer and Native Plant Nursery Project Officer, Receptionist and Office Support person.

Here is a poem, one of my mentors shared with me written by Marva Lee Wiegelt...
'AFTER YOU DIE'
Just so you know after you die
I will not wonder why you didn’t do
your dishes or how long it’s been
since you cleaned your oven or
microwave or mopped your floors
or why there were dust bunnies under
the bed and behind the door
After you’re gone I will not wonder
how you could have allowed the
piles of old mail to accumulate or
why you saved so many bits and pieces
of this and that or why you weren’t
more goal-oriented and well-organized
or why your refrigerator contained
so many expired condiments
When you are absent from all your
familiar places I vow to avoid wondering
why you didn’t eat less and exercise more
or why you waited so long to stop smoking
or drinking or whatever else was
simultaneously soothing and deadly or
why you took whatever risk may
seem to have hastened your exit
or why you left so much
unsaid unfinished or unresolved
I will only wonder if you knew how much
you mattered to me just as you are
as you were when we met in our temporary
human disguises and laughed in the
dressing room of the world at how funkily
our skin suits fit at times
I will wonder and hope
you knew you were beloved
I will wonder when we last hugged
and whether you felt how our
heartbeats converged and
our bellies bumped like boats
and then we both sighed
~ Marva Lee Weigelt