Chance = Change

As Associate Director here at Barter Theatre, it has been my job to listen to all new musicals that are sent us and read all new plays that are even proposed, and so it has been. Hundreds and hundreds of proposals for new works, most of which are not even vaguely right for our audiences, and so i send a lot of "thank you but no thank you" letters. Every now and again, however, i will ask for a full script and we have even produced some of the works that have come to us that way. I shall miss this part of the job, because i adore reading new things, and here at this theater we have the ability to really help them go the next step. There is certain real satisfaction in that. Right now i am listening to a new musical of Shaw's YOU NEVER CAN TELL. Is it right for us? Not sure yet. But it is surely fun to listen and read. I even bought a rocking chair made of gorgeous bent wood for the special purpose of sitting, reading and listening here in my cozy office, which i also shall miss. Production meeting this morning...my last , at least for a while. Every single one of those meetings (every Friday morning at 9:00 am) I have learned something new, and I shall miss them for that reason alone. I really do wonder if I shall ever come back to work here...? Life is odd...one really NEVER CAN TELL...who knows what the future actually will bring? I do know that these several years have been truly wonderful for me. And to Rick Rose and so many others here, i am grateful. Deeply grateful. It is a bright and splendid winter day outside today,mountains clear on the rim of the town. Another thing to miss. But the future shines as well, and Peter is a wonderful man to anticipate sharing it with, no matter how scared i may feel. And at my age (older than so many of the bloggers I am reading online), change is good, essential even, to keeping open and awake and aware of life's surprises. I feel that the advent of online blogging, of the internet altogether, is such a miracle in my lifetime, and that already there are generations of people born for whom the Internet is a given in life, they have never been without it..my Momma would have been truly astounded by what it has to offer. Maybe in a future lifetime, in the karmic dance she and i undoubtedly have not finished, we will be able to share more of such wonders. I think of her everyday. And it has been 4 years since her death. It helps that my doggie is named after her: SALLY. And Peter calls her SALLY MEYER, my mom's maiden name...I am sure her spirit is alive in this amazing pup. I choose to believe so.