Alright, so my well-intentioned plans of writing on this thing every day have clearly not worked out. So it goes. I'm alright with it.
Not surprisingly, I've been busy, busy, BUSY! Turns out that simultaneously assistant directing the Peace Theatre Camp production and producing/stage managing Two in the Bush for the Fringe Festival was maybe not the wisest undertaking. But I made it through! The Fringe ends today, we had our final Two in the Bush performance this afternoon - that is, until we perform at the "Best of the Fringe" hold-over series at the Diesel Playhouse at the end of this month! Woo Hoo!!
What's kept me going, (although I am embarrassed to admit that I haven't had the time to properly acknowledge this by returning phone calls & emails) have been the lovely, often totally unexpected, and rather out-of-the-blue phone messages and emails (and blog comments!) from various people out there, simply sending me their love, support and thoughts. Truly, these have always arrived just when I need 'em the most, and have given me the hope, strength and inspiration to keep going... even in the face of total exhaustion and frustration.
Thank goodness for a little help from my friends!
I have to say, amidst all of this (great, important, and meaningful - to me atleast) work, I have felt a little bit lost... Lost in the sense that I've felt like I've been working so hard on other peoples' projects that I've forgotten a little bit about who I am, and what I want... But now that the Fringe is over, and Peace Camp will perform, and wrap up, at the end of this coming week, I am feeling as though I will have a little more time to focus on projects of my own, and I am feeling determined that I must do this.
At the top of my list of things to attend to are:
* My move to NYC - I gotta make this happen!!! I know that I owe it to myself!!!
* Research and writing of my book, and...
* A return to the writing of MY next show???
Okay, so there you have it my friends, the goals for the coming days & weeks, more updates to follow. Sooner rather than later. I promise.
XO,
MMM
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
"Rainbow Warriors", Small Fires & Standing Ovations
What a day!!! (Day 2 of Peace Camp and Opening Night of Two in the Bush!)
Three things I want to tell you about...
1. This afternoon at Peace Camp for our "Global Perspectives/Guest Speaker" session, we had two women from Six Nations come in and do an amazing Native ceremony with us. They concluded by telling our group of children that they were Very Special becuase thousands of years ago a prophecy was made: In the time of change in Mother Earth a generation of young people would be born with the spiritual gifts to ensure that the earth will be alright. They will come from a variety of cultures, countries, faiths, etc. And so they were named The Rainbow Warriors." Inspiring.
2. I arrived two hours prior to showtime for our opening night show tonight in a total whirlwind of various "small fires" (last minute changes to, and then the printing of, our program, followed by the collapse of our set, computer difficulties with our slideshow... oh my!). It was INSANE. And I really thought that disaster was impending, but... we managed to makeshift our way out of these disasters and eventually (5 minutes before curtain) we were ready to start the show (without having had the time to do anything we planned to do, like a Cue to Cue, or a testing of the sound levels, light focusing... I barely had time to put my make-up on before I performed) and...
3. Our first show (performed to a nearly sold-out house!) was SPECTACULAR! Tracey was amazing. The audience loved it. And we got a standing ovation. I am THRILLED. Totally proud and totally impressed. With all of us.
AND, I'm exhausted. So to bed now. Another day at Peace Camp tomorrow, followed by another show. It's ON!!! And I'm pumped!!!
NAMASTE
Three things I want to tell you about...
1. This afternoon at Peace Camp for our "Global Perspectives/Guest Speaker" session, we had two women from Six Nations come in and do an amazing Native ceremony with us. They concluded by telling our group of children that they were Very Special becuase thousands of years ago a prophecy was made: In the time of change in Mother Earth a generation of young people would be born with the spiritual gifts to ensure that the earth will be alright. They will come from a variety of cultures, countries, faiths, etc. And so they were named The Rainbow Warriors." Inspiring.
2. I arrived two hours prior to showtime for our opening night show tonight in a total whirlwind of various "small fires" (last minute changes to, and then the printing of, our program, followed by the collapse of our set, computer difficulties with our slideshow... oh my!). It was INSANE. And I really thought that disaster was impending, but... we managed to makeshift our way out of these disasters and eventually (5 minutes before curtain) we were ready to start the show (without having had the time to do anything we planned to do, like a Cue to Cue, or a testing of the sound levels, light focusing... I barely had time to put my make-up on before I performed) and...
3. Our first show (performed to a nearly sold-out house!) was SPECTACULAR! Tracey was amazing. The audience loved it. And we got a standing ovation. I am THRILLED. Totally proud and totally impressed. With all of us.
AND, I'm exhausted. So to bed now. Another day at Peace Camp tomorrow, followed by another show. It's ON!!! And I'm pumped!!!
NAMASTE
Monday, July 2, 2007
Do You Realise?
Random (scattered) thoughts at the end of a very full day...
...Sometimes when you're a perfectionist, and harder on yourself than anyone else is, you can get sooooo consumed with your drive to be perfect and do everything that you end up projecting all of your own self-doubts onto others, ultimately tricking yourself into thinking that it's them that is/are demanding so much from you (when really, it's you). This never results in goodness. Actually, it just puts a whole big ball of negative energy out into the universe around you. So if you're like me in the above-mentioned "perfectionist/harder-on-yourself-than-others-are" kind of way, be aware of this... and be careful not to do it...
...There's a beautiful story that Tracey recounts in her new show (Two in the Bush! - Opens this Wednesday night - woo hoo!!!) about Joan of Arc. Apparently, when she was burned at the stake, she asked a man in the crowd to hold a cross so that she could see it, and asked him to shout out assurances of salvation so that she could hear them above the roar of the crowd and the flames. In the show, Tracey's character reminds us to make sure that when the roars of life get loud, make sure that you always have a friend to shout out assurances above the flames... I think this is my favorite part of the show. And I am thankful for those friends that I always seem to have, that shout assurances loud enough for me to hear them above the roar in my own head....
...Peace Camp starts tomorrow and Two in the Bush opens on Wednesday night - EXCITEMENT!!!
"Do you realise???
that you have the most beautiful face... we're floating in space... that happiness makes you cry... that everyone you know, some day, will die...
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you realise that life goes fast, it's hard to make the good things last, you realise the sun don't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round"
- The Flaming Lips
...Sometimes when you're a perfectionist, and harder on yourself than anyone else is, you can get sooooo consumed with your drive to be perfect and do everything that you end up projecting all of your own self-doubts onto others, ultimately tricking yourself into thinking that it's them that is/are demanding so much from you (when really, it's you). This never results in goodness. Actually, it just puts a whole big ball of negative energy out into the universe around you. So if you're like me in the above-mentioned "perfectionist/harder-on-yourself-than-others-are" kind of way, be aware of this... and be careful not to do it...
...There's a beautiful story that Tracey recounts in her new show (Two in the Bush! - Opens this Wednesday night - woo hoo!!!) about Joan of Arc. Apparently, when she was burned at the stake, she asked a man in the crowd to hold a cross so that she could see it, and asked him to shout out assurances of salvation so that she could hear them above the roar of the crowd and the flames. In the show, Tracey's character reminds us to make sure that when the roars of life get loud, make sure that you always have a friend to shout out assurances above the flames... I think this is my favorite part of the show. And I am thankful for those friends that I always seem to have, that shout assurances loud enough for me to hear them above the roar in my own head....
...Peace Camp starts tomorrow and Two in the Bush opens on Wednesday night - EXCITEMENT!!!
"Do you realise???
that you have the most beautiful face... we're floating in space... that happiness makes you cry... that everyone you know, some day, will die...
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you realise that life goes fast, it's hard to make the good things last, you realise the sun don't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round"
- The Flaming Lips
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