I confess to loving new chapters in my life. There are sometimes so many in my life it makes me dizzy.
One is our restoration of our bedroom, a Maria’ inspired project involving days of scraping spraying and mopping up. Maria was sick yesterday, she actually lay down for a few hours.
The other is acting class.
Maria woke up like a tornado this morning, feeling fine and full of energy, we sent the afternoon tearing wallpaper off of the bedroom walls. Our farmhouse is about 200 years old, the wallpaper is dug in pretty well. Maria is on the case, I am the happy scrapper, so far, much fun.
Tomorrow, another chapter begins.
I am beginning the first of eight acting classes being taught by Actor Christine Decker, a remarkably gift person who played the role of a struggling dairy farmer wife – inspired by Carol Gulley – in a short play I wrote about a dairy farm going under. It was sadly too prescient.
Christine is a powerful and charismatic presence. I am eager to see if this kind of class opens me up in some way or hopefully, helps my writing. Christine thinks it might.
I’m going to bring Red, he always lightens up any group. The class costs $200, is two hours each week, and will last eight weeks. Maria is paying for it as a Christmas gift for me.
I am not certain, to be frank, why I am taking the class. I have no wish to act or perform or be in a play – Christine is the Education Director at the Old Castle Theater in Bennington, Vt., a place of rising energy in the local theater.
Maria and I saw a play at Old Castle recently that she directed, and she sat in the front row to watch. I love her energy and commitment to her work. I just feel there is something important to learn from someone like that, no matter how it is applied in my life.
I’ll be taking photos and sharing the experience of course. Wish me luck.
Hang out with interesting people and life gets more interesting. And fun.
Sounds like big fun to me! Can’t wait to read about your experiences, Jon. I believe that as we get older, we are more able to value new experiences. Well, some of us, I suppose. I do see some people age and decide to plant themselves firmly in one spot, fearful of anything new. I knew a woman in our 12-step community who was in her 80’s, still driving other women all over to meetings, still going to retreats and conventions. Even when she could no longer drive, she kept right on going. She said she LOVED experiences and wasn’t going to just sit. You would find her everywhere, with her crocheting, just happily participating. She never let any physical infirmity get in the way of living life. God, I love that!
Among common wild animals which can be seen here include binturong or bearcat, civet cat, Himalayan black bear and red panda.
Finally, as soon as you arrive to the Inca citadel via the Sun Gate,
there exists more optional Machu Picchu hiking to do