October 2011
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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...
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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...
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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.
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