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Thanksgiving
"Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going"-- Mary Oliver November 23, 10:15 am, 35 degrees, gusty south winds, cloudy, slush and sand. Beth and I squeezed in a walk even though we both said we didn't have time. Turkeys, tidying, pies,...
Sunday’s Thought
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obliged to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."-- Maya Angelou
Farewell to Ballybeg
The thing about a play, about rocking a baby, about the toast at her wedding 30 years later, about the Northern lights over Mt. Ripinsky following the cast party-- truly about this one wonderful life we have--- is that once it's done it's gone. Yet thanks to our...
Sunday’s Thought
“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.” --Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
This is Not a Rehearsal…
It's life these days for the seven of us in the play- and our director, stage manager and the four tech/prop/make-up people. "Dancing at Lughnasa" has been our life for the darkest, worst some would say-- part of the winter, so I suppose the sunshine and blue sky --...
Top of the Mornin’ to ya!
Join me for a post swim cocktail? Kate Mundy, my alter-ego in "Dancing at Lughnasa" would no doubt approve of a tablespoon of cod liver oil washed down with a pint of cider, water, and a vitamin C packet. This why when everyone else laughs when Kate pulls out the cod...
Sunday’s Thought
"There are random moments-- tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from the children's rooms-- when I feel a wavelike...