Being me in the world
There are some moments that are just meant to be. There are some experiences that one is just meant to have. And there are some experiences you never forget and from which you grow so very, very much. Tonight was all of these. The final performance of the production was, literally, the point to which…
Sometimes, I think, we expect too much – especially based on past experience and our anticipation of things to come. At times, we are right and things just do get better from where they are. At others, there is ample evidence that things have just not got through, the lessons haven’t been learnt and nothing,…
Opening night. The night towards which we have been working for the last 5 weeks or so. The night I targeted 6 weeks ago when I booked the theatre and put the date on the Head of School’s calendar. And it was worth every minute, hour and day spent writing, preparing and rehearsing. I love…
Today I literally drove four out of the five cars we own, for one reason or another. One of the trips was to deliver the Condor for a service. I ran home (for that, read ran most of the way, with bouts of walking in between) and my thoughts turned to this time last year….
Sometimes I hate having had cancer. Sometimes I am highly resentful that the silly thing chose me to invade and that I had to have all the treatment with the after-effects and long term changes to what I knew as me. Even as I think this, I can hear a part of my brain telling…
Today the technical rehearsal for the play began with a power outage on the campus. Not exactly the way to be working with lights and sound 🙂 We forged ahead, though; the fault was corrected and everything fell into place. It really is amazing to see how a group of individuals comes together, each doing…
Somehow I missed the memo that stated something like rehearsals for a play are optional, or can be negotiated according to what the individual performer wants to do, or can simply be missed – and rarely arrived for on time. ‘African time’ takes on a whole range of different meanings. Out of a cast of,…
I am coming to the conclusion that there is little in life that doesn’t have a ‘the way you look at it’ aspect to it. Today Bridget had her surgery. On the one hand, this can be seen as a horrible, huge event that affects the patient enormously, causing pain, discomfort and inconvenience. On another…
This time it was Carl’s fault, not mine. He asked me how I am doing and mentioned the chemo taste. And it is back. It has to be something that I eat that triggers a chemical reaction in my body, which leads to the taste being re-established in my mouth. At least, surely it is….
Sometimes there are moments that just talk to us, things that happen that tell us something if we just choose to look in the right way. For the second time in just over a week, I surprised an owl out of what must be the tree where it roosts this evening. I was thinking so…