2.25.2009

neo-me.

yes, it's true. i am a neo, neo-futurist. "what does this mean?" you say. well, it means that after careful consideration by my peers, i've been chosen to join a theater company (or an ensemble as i'd like to put it) to create/collaborate/perform with. now, i heart the neos...big time. i hearted them in chicago with all that heart that i have and i'm gonna heart them in new york with my heartiest of hearts.

just wait. you'll see.

they'll all see!

mwahhh hahaha ha ha!

um. ehem.

the point is, i get to work with more amazing and talented people and i get to do it real soon. i'll be going into the show in less that two weeks.

i like it this way. i like to jump right in. unless, of course, we're talking about a swimming pool. in the case of a swimming pool i like to ease my way in.

in theater, i like to jump.

2.18.2009

guess what?


i get to be in a theater company!
in new york city!

look ma, no hands!

2.08.2009

sunday day.

i try to keep magic in my life. always.


it's in the 50s outside.

daffodils on the windowsill.

windows open, just a crack.

2.05.2009

when i'm not whining about missing people, i've been doing a few other things. i've been teaching preschool at a nearby co-op, babysitting for strange children and going out on the occasional commercial audition.

last week, one of the kids told me he wanted to lick me.

this week, one of them showed me a booger, as if to hand it directly to me, and said, "this is a big booger."

today one of them called me a clown. how right he is.

sometimes i contemplate why i choose to work with children. not in the sense that i wonder what the heck i'm doing; more like, "why am i intrigued by these tiny people and why do they seem to implicitly understand me?" i know that i'm silly, i'm strange and i'm interesting to look at. i know that i have a good sense of what kind of energy a room holds and what is necessary to enhance or change it.

i like these little folks. they say crazy stuff (see above) and they are undeniably genuine. they can't be anyone else but themselves. i think maybe the older we get, the easier it is to forget. who we are, what we like, what makes us truly happy: a shape, a color, a song, a smile.