10-16_walden walk with Annie
I’ve taken more visitors for a walk around Walden than probably any place else. Writers, hikers, sisters :) everyone finds something to like about. But I rarely get the chance to walk it with the one person who knows why it’s my favorite walk.
Annie was my BFF in highschool. Somewhere in my basement I have a stack of letters that she wrote me every summer. Different color pens for every line of the address, envelopes decorated with Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics and stickers. She has an almost identical stack from me somewhere in her attic, I’m sure. It was such a kick to drive her by 17 pantry road to see the mailbox all those letters passed through.
This pond that had so much romance and promise to me at 16. I spent those few perfect summer days on this beach, building sand castles with my cousins and dreaming, the evenings writing long letters about everything, looking out at that mailbox.
So funny to be here on this crisp fall day at 40, walking it together, finding we are just where we wanted to be, the 2 of us.
You’re a doctor! I work with cameras in theatres and get paid for it! Are we amazing!
2011-10-14_Finally! Opera! Boston!
October is my favorite month for so so so many reasons. The color, the chill, the little kids in plaid skirts and blue pants running down the sidewalks. The baseball season ends and the opera season begins. Hooray.
I have always wanted to shoot for Opera Boston, it’s a little company with a big mission that rehearses and performs right in my own backyard. I am still heartbroken I didn’t see Madame Whitesnake last year… it sold out before I got a ticket. :(
So, especially special to sit in on a rehearsal for this one, never mind how much fun and Much Ado! an all time favorite. Great people, great work.
Finally! Opera! Boston!
who is it for?
I’ve read 2 things so far this morning, a blog posting on NPR asking if opera is only for rich white people (it’s not, and I’ve never worked at an opera company that didn’t know that and wasn’t working like hell to reach a more diverse audience,) and this article in the NYT about a performance of the Lion King modified for children with autism.
I think the juxtaposition says it all. but I was thinking about Wheelock Family Theatre’s slogan ‘Live Theater Changes Lives’ all through reading that second article.
It does. and how great is that?
Good morning Boston. :)
Delayed. And perhaps, bored?
Clouds over new England.
Passport full of memories.
Back where we started
6 years ago I went off the grid for 4 days, and returned to the exact same news story. Same pictures, same news anchors, same posturing and exclaiming.
That was hurricane Katrina.
I just had the same experience, but with Casey Anthony.
Really, America? Really?
In other news, Mary J Blige is 40. There is hope.
