DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!
I found this doll in Pamela Hastings' book, "Dollmaking as a Transformative Process".
She says,
"I discovered this doll and the poem when I was teaching in Mendocino.
My thanks to Alice,
who brought in the poem and her interpretation of this immediately-healing doll."
The poem reads,
WHEN YOU THINK
YOU WANT TO
CLIMB THE WALL,
OR STAND RIGHT UP
AND SHOUT
HERE'S A LITTLE DAMMIT DOLL
YOU CANNOT DO WITHOUT
JUST GRASP IT FIRMLY
BY THE LEGS
AND FIND A PLACE
TO SLAM IT
THEN AS YOU WHACK
ITS STUFFING OUT,
YELL
DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT.
I offer these dolls to you as a release for frustration, anger, belligerence ...whatever.
Don't worry about hurting these adorable creatures.
I find simply the intention to 'slam' them,
is enough to dissipate the emotion that caused me to pick them up.
An amusing postscript...
I was helping three young girls to create their own Dammit doll.
One insisted on having arms.
Somehow, in the sewing process, the arms got hooked into the side-seams.
She called it her HUG-IT DOLL!
There is no limit to our imaginations when we begin to create!
Each doll is $NZ15 plus postage and packaging.
Read more about Dammit Dolls here.
She says,
"I discovered this doll and the poem when I was teaching in Mendocino.
My thanks to Alice,
who brought in the poem and her interpretation of this immediately-healing doll."
The poem reads,
WHEN YOU THINK
YOU WANT TO
CLIMB THE WALL,
OR STAND RIGHT UP
AND SHOUT
HERE'S A LITTLE DAMMIT DOLL
YOU CANNOT DO WITHOUT
JUST GRASP IT FIRMLY
BY THE LEGS
AND FIND A PLACE
TO SLAM IT
THEN AS YOU WHACK
ITS STUFFING OUT,
YELL
DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT.
I offer these dolls to you as a release for frustration, anger, belligerence ...whatever.
Don't worry about hurting these adorable creatures.
I find simply the intention to 'slam' them,
is enough to dissipate the emotion that caused me to pick them up.
An amusing postscript...
I was helping three young girls to create their own Dammit doll.
One insisted on having arms.
Somehow, in the sewing process, the arms got hooked into the side-seams.
She called it her HUG-IT DOLL!
There is no limit to our imaginations when we begin to create!
Each doll is $NZ15 plus postage and packaging.
Read more about Dammit Dolls here.