What roles have I played in 2009? That photo to the right here shows me in costume to play the last role I played in 2009. Sister Veronica. to be precise. On stage - but I don't think this question is concerning herself with fiction, so I will try a different approach.
Well, overnight – from midnightish… 12:44 am to be exact until about 3:35 I played the role of the trusted, service oriented friend. Did I want to be there? Was my dream coming true in being there? No. And Yes.
How long has it been since I have been comfortable calling a friend up and out of bed in the middle of the night to take on a three hour long chore to take care of me? Never. I have never done that, made that request on someone’s behalf.
Well, unless you count Cornell rescuing us from Chamberlain this Summer, which wasn't in the middle of the night and was, sort of, pre-planned.
So I have played rescuer and a rescuee.
I have been a creator and a model.
An artist and a subject.
“You are such a hippie!” said Parker and Emma in a giggling duet.
“No, I am not a Hippie, I am just me.” I quietly explained, Hippie-Buddha like.
Roles are the things other people put on me and say, “Wow, that role looks great on you.” To which I choose to say “Thank you!” and keep humming my song.
I play roles on stage: characters, time periods, archetypes, sometimes comedic relief.
The rest of the time, I am just tangibly, whole-hearted and whole-souledly…. Me.
Gwen Bell wants to know our Best09 ….Stationery on December 28.
When you touch the paper, your heart melts. The ink flows from the pen. What was your stationery find of the year?
I enjoy the simple things in life. It started unconsciously and then moved into necessity and now, it is by choice.
I love stationery stores, office supply stuff – back to school sales make me salivate and it takes everything in me not to go berserk for the new stuff, the new stuff, the new stuff!
This year, 2009, I returned to the old fashioned composition book as my favored journal. I found them for something like 49 cents at a discount store at a back-to-school sale in July and bought a whole bunch.
They have been my faithful companion ever since with part of my process being creating fanciful covers for them… well, painting and collaging their covers – which you see in the images here.
I thought a final punctuation mark on this particular #Best09 Blog entry would be to share the first sentence in each book.
The date on the first one says “December, no…JULY 26, 2009.”
“I am looking into the future, to the day after Katherine turns 18.”
August 15, 2009
“It is Saturday morning.”
October 1, 2009
“Welcome to October.”
November 21, 2009
“It is almost noon at my cluttered kitchen table and I return to the page, my pencil leaving its non-xeroxable faces against the paper: truths which refuse to be replicated.”
1. 10 Walks of at least 10 Minutes in length
2. 10 Intentional Conversations with 10 Different people I love
3. 10 Days of Food Diary entries
4. 10 Sessions of Mindful Decluttering
5. 10 Days of the 5 Tibetans
6. 10 Days of 10 Minute Stretching
7. 10 Poems selected for publications
8. 10 Chapters edited
9. 10 New Works of Art
10. 10 Handwritten notes
