Walking on the highway - flat, golden fields. To my right a string of billboards being painted by the mere suggestion of brushes and hands to reveal the blue sky and clouds.

Homemade pizza. Chimay. Hooray!

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I feel young, I look young, often younger than I am. Still, I have this nagging feeling, ok, it is a fact, that I'm getting older. All I want to do when I get home from work is knit, cook dinner and pet the cat. Now I even sound like an old spinster, which this time in fact, I am not. Maybe I'll go for a post dinner walk as well - wave at some ( Read more... )

Forget watching videos of mezzos trying to portray teenage boys and young men. I've decided that for the most part, they take a fluffy approach - turning burgeoning men into gawky, tangled boys who act as if they are a hormone without strength or intelligence. When pants roles were being written and performed, many of them by actual men I might add ( Read more... )

Great discussions. Torn inside, happy but not. The sorrow comes from not being completely true to myself, not being wise to quote a previous thought. I know myself but ignore it. My strategy it seems has been to try and wait this one out. I am waiting to find if being true can coincide and be assimilated into the life I am a part of here and now. I ( Read more... )

Not a day goes by that I don't think about it. Wanting to say something, shout something, let it be known. I had a dream that I was grasping and hanging onto a bar. A hand was gently pulling back my fingers one by one. I didn't replace them upon the bar once they were pried off. I didn't fall but I was so full of fear. Instead I was in someone's ( Read more... )

I'm caught on the edge, I've always straddled night and day. I was born into this place. No matter how beautiful the sunlight is upon the waves or the dappling of light through the leaves of a summer tree, I can't seem to tear myself away from the night. The moon's glow reflects the sun's light but even then the cold calm, waxing and waning in his ( Read more... )

This morning: Sent one digital application to Lake George. Scanned, created cds, finalized and packaged 13 applications to send this afternoon - Chautauqua, Chicago OT, Des Moines, Florida Grand, Glimmerglass, LA, MInnesota, New Jersey, Pensacola, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and Virginia ( Read more... )

I received my contract for the opera chorus yesterday afternoon. I was extended a Core contract which basically means I was contracted for all 4 shows that there is female chorus in. I also got my contract a few months before the non-Core performers. I'll be re-contracted shortly after the end of next season rather than re-auditioning and waiting ( Read more... )