Thursday, July 22, 2010
Three Women and a Bus, and Other Literary Matters
Morning all! Well, both the VIrginia Highlands Festival and the Barter's Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights will be starting in a short time - unbelievably, the Highlands Festival begins this weekend! - and so, as busy as Barter is at all times, it only gets busier now! Meanwhile, the orphan kitty (named Angel) we adopted and have brought back to life, is thriving, happy and, even at his advanced age, he is quite vocal and spry....our two pups have accommodated themselves very nicely to this new brother, and it's stunning to watch dogs and cats lie down together n the same loving lap!
Paul is currently visiting - while Stephen stays in Nashville with his ailing Dad - and it's ,as ever, great to have Paul with us. I miss him so when he is not.
I've begun participating in the summer playwrighting class we offered, taught by Tommy Bryant , and the name of the play I have started is THREE WOMEN AND A BUS, telling the story of a school teacher, a housemaid and a girl in 1960's Atlanta. I am by no means a playwright, and have been in too many good plays to think it is easy to write one, but i am surprised how easily this idea came to me, and so, I've completed two scenes already, and have no idea how to proceed, but shall do so anyway!
Also, in preparation for shipping my 40 years' worth of personal journals to San Francisco (i've been keeping journals for over 40 years of my life!!!) it's been necessary to arrange them first chronologically and then pack them in boxes by decades. In so doing, of course, I've had to stop and read them...or at least portions of them...whatever catches my interest...and i am surprised at how much I wrote and even more stunned at all the moments of my life I have captured already on paper. It's a large body of work, and my dreams of digesting it into book form once I get the time and space in SF, seems so do-able now. THe more i perused the pages of my younger years, the more ideas came flooding into my brain for how to do the books i want to write. And, once again, much as I have been my entire life, I begin to ache to write.
But first, plays to rehearse, personal goods and furniture and stuff to sell and give away...a major move to make...a week long trip to San Francisco for exploration and learning in August...LOTS TO DO !
What great adventures lie ahead of us, and when I calm down and meditate and remember it's all supposed to be FUN, I get very happy and excited about it all...even the seemingly hard parts!
So, if anyone wishes to buy a dining room table and chairs (we have two !!)...or lamps, or a futon, or any number of other things, simply let me know! And we can arrange private showings! Already, we have begun to cleanse our life of objects, and I want to continue! I want San Francisco to be a fresh start!
Paul is currently visiting - while Stephen stays in Nashville with his ailing Dad - and it's ,as ever, great to have Paul with us. I miss him so when he is not.
I've begun participating in the summer playwrighting class we offered, taught by Tommy Bryant , and the name of the play I have started is THREE WOMEN AND A BUS, telling the story of a school teacher, a housemaid and a girl in 1960's Atlanta. I am by no means a playwright, and have been in too many good plays to think it is easy to write one, but i am surprised how easily this idea came to me, and so, I've completed two scenes already, and have no idea how to proceed, but shall do so anyway!
Also, in preparation for shipping my 40 years' worth of personal journals to San Francisco (i've been keeping journals for over 40 years of my life!!!) it's been necessary to arrange them first chronologically and then pack them in boxes by decades. In so doing, of course, I've had to stop and read them...or at least portions of them...whatever catches my interest...and i am surprised at how much I wrote and even more stunned at all the moments of my life I have captured already on paper. It's a large body of work, and my dreams of digesting it into book form once I get the time and space in SF, seems so do-able now. THe more i perused the pages of my younger years, the more ideas came flooding into my brain for how to do the books i want to write. And, once again, much as I have been my entire life, I begin to ache to write.
But first, plays to rehearse, personal goods and furniture and stuff to sell and give away...a major move to make...a week long trip to San Francisco for exploration and learning in August...LOTS TO DO !
What great adventures lie ahead of us, and when I calm down and meditate and remember it's all supposed to be FUN, I get very happy and excited about it all...even the seemingly hard parts!
So, if anyone wishes to buy a dining room table and chairs (we have two !!)...or lamps, or a futon, or any number of other things, simply let me know! And we can arrange private showings! Already, we have begun to cleanse our life of objects, and I want to continue! I want San Francisco to be a fresh start!
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