Thurs. Sept. 21, 2023: Enjoying the Good Days
image courtesy of Elmer L. Geissler via pixabay.comThursday, September 21, 2023
Waxing Moon
Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Sunny and cool
I’m so happy we’re finally in Autumn! Check the latest on the garden over on Gratitude and Growth.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 122: Shelley on the Move
Shelley’s juggling angles on several different fronts.
My right shoulder, the one that was dislocated during a performance of MISS SAIGON all those years ago, is giving me grief again, and I’m not sure why.
What did I even do yesterday? It seems so far away. I know I worked on something or other in the morning, darned if I can remember what.
I walked my errands, because it was such a beautiful day. I went to the bank and to the Post Office. Caught up on the news, and they were excited, at the Post Office, to post a flyer for our reading on the 30th. Walked further into town to drop off other flyers. I love living in a small city that’s excited to support each other’s work. Let’s hope some people actually turn out for it!
Came home and turned around two small client projects. I’d hoped this week would have more client work – how much do you want to bet everyone will yammer at me next week and the following, when they know (and have known for months) that I am not available?
Put together a proposal for an ongoing gig that would be a lot of fun and pay decently, although I’m a bit of an out-of-the-box choice for it. All I can do is pitch, and see if they want to follow up. Right. THAT’s what took me most of the morning. Putting it together.
We got our information packets for next week’s residency, so I had to go through and digest all of that. It’s getting real!
I got everything done before heading over to Williamstown for tarot circle, which was amazing. The core group is really lovely, and there’s room for others to flow in and out. But the respect and care we all show each other is wonderful.
There’s a reception for a local artist who created a major arcana tarot deck (she’s part of the tarot circle) on Friday, so I will go to that. I’ll do my time at the Clark in the afternoon instead of the morning this week, and go directly from the Clark to the reception.
Picked up takeout on the way home, we ate and didn’t have to rush or stress, and I was all set for cooking class on time. We had a session on herbs and spices: storing, sourcing, etc. Most of it was stuff I knew and already do. I got into a side conversation with someone whose sister lives a few blocks from where I used to live on Cape, and who owns a yoga studio in Mashpee. If only our paths had crossed when I lived there!
Finished the book on the H.W. Wilson company. Ended up ordering my own copy, plus a copy of LOST AMUSEMENT PARKS, plus a copy of Iris Woolcott’s book about her journey through Alaska in 1948. Even if she isn’t my Playland Painter Iris Woolcott, the book will be interesting.
Okay, my friends, I am having An Issue. As I do the research on the HW Wilson Company, both to support THE WOMEN ON THE BRIDGE, and to create a piece built around the company and the enclave in what is now Croton Heights, the images and scenes are coming to me as. . .a musical.
I’ve never written the book of a musical.
I have no idea how to write the book of a musical.
I’ve wanted, for years, to write the book of a musical.
I’ve been encouraged, since my MISS SAIGON days, to write the book of a musical.
But I always figured the music/lyrics team would bring me in.
The Dramatists Guild has had, over the years, workshops about writing the book of a musical. I will have to check it out. I doubt it will happen – it would push it out of the realm of getting it produced, most likely, in my lifetime.
And yet, that is the form this piece wants to take.
Brain, Muse, why are you doing this to me?
We have to cancel this weekend’s storage run again. Because of weather. Again. There’s another storm moving up the coast that won’t be too bad here, but will hit the Cape with 2” of rain and high winds. Driving 4 hours each way and then trying to work in the rain is not a good idea. It puts yet more pressure on October, but that’s the way it goes.
Meditation was good. Charlotte is participating again, after napping through it for a few weeks. After breakfast, I will do some writing. This afternoon is the Nightwood session, and after that is yoga. I’ll talk to my teacher about my crunchy shoulder and see what we can come up with.
Have a good one!
