Chance = Change

...resting after a strenuous game of "tossie" with his Dad....a boy dog can only run on little short legs for a certain amount of time before having to plop down in the soft cool grass for a little rest....look at that adorable long tongue!

Anyway, another great weekend at the House...extremely relaxing and yet we seem to get so much done...Saturday evening we spent with Cousin Nancy...we ate a meal in Mt.Kisco and saw BECOMING JANE in Pleasantville..a relaxed family evening...the wonderful discovery is that Anne Hathaway, "Jane Austen", is a terrific film actress... who knew?? I now like her even more than I did before...Sunday was spent in the meditation studio,and, of course, in the gardens....wonderful.

Little notes of delight: friends are having such good successes...our darling Kate Guyton just got cast in CYRANO de BERGERAC with Kevin Kline on Broadway....don't know what role...and our amazing Will Bigham is one of the three finalists on television's THE LOT, so by all means vote for him! His movies have been popular with not only the judges, but with the American viewing public as well, so his vote count has been high enough to get him this far...
I have had a feeling all along that he might actually win this thing and that means an entire world will open up for him and his beautiful wife Cat and their two baby girls...it seems like truly yesterday we all were slaving away at The Barter Theatre together.....and, as it happens, making movies together! When we formed the EARTH WIND AND POLKA Band for the summer cabaret, Will made a BEHIND THE MUSIC: EARTH WIND AND POLKA film and we all had such enormous fun making it....Peter appears as the bassist (EARTH) and I make a cameo as one of DESTINY's LEIDERHOSEN, the back-up girl singers....(I can't remember if I am Bitsy,Titsy or one of the other "itsy's"...we own a copy and one day it may be sort of a collectors item....i mean great successful adverntures lie ahead for Will, even if he doesn't win THE LOT...he has already had amazing exposure and support from that enormously influential industry.....it's so much fun...we have such wonderful and talented friends...so proud of Kate...so proud of Will....life can be so amazing sometimes.

Saw ALIVE AT TEN downtown last Friday...dinner beforehand with our pals Mike Schaib and Brent Lord, (talk about talent! what amazing musical writers they are)...my student Ryan Speakman was wonderful....as usual....the show itself was lively and spirited...wonderfully directed...(sorry , can't remember by whom..but true gift there) ..choreography fun...and the cast was terrific...a rousing evening....the striving was palpable in the room...I remember that feeling of dire importance....when everything seemed so deeply important, with futures seeming to hang in the balance...funny...after getting deeply into meditation practise, (and of course it doesn't hurt that I have lived through decades ), I see it all rather differently now....of course I do....what is life for, except to grow and change? Deepen one's understanding of all one thought solid before? Things do change....vision shifts...as it well should. It must.

A cloudy and warm, rain-imminent day here in NYC....i have the luxury of a day to myself...I feel this urgent need to throw things away! Cleanse....lighten...and so I will.