So its been a while
Hello again. To you, beloved blog site, I sincerely apologize. I abandoned you, leaving you stranded in the middle of nowhere with no one to turn to and nothing new to read. A lot has occurred since the 18th of may. But due to my location (Camrose) none of the events were interesting.
At the beginning of this summer I set out with the goal to make every day worth while, to create millions of memories. The kind of memories you look back on and cant stop that warm grin from creeping on to your face. Well its august now, and there are very few of those warm, giggly memories coming to mind. Time passes us by so quickly. Every day millions of opportunities are denied the chance to evolve into something beautiful.
During Artstrek 2006, the theatre camp I recently attended, we explored the well known play Our Town by Thornton Wilder. This play is incredibly moving, I don't suggest you read it at home because it would take a lot of focus and imagination to get through the first act (the beginning is kinda boring), but if you ever get the chance to see it live, DO IT! The play is set in the early 1900's and is narrated by a Stage Manager, the first act shows us daily life in the small town of Grovers Corners. I takes us into the homes of the Webb family and their neighbors the Gibbs family. The second act is about love and marriage, a romance develops and flourishes between young George Gibbs and the girl next door, Emily Webb. The third act is about death. Emily died giving birth at the age of 23. She travels up to the grave yard on a hill, where she chats with the rest of the deceased and watches her own funeral take place right before her eyes. Than she is given the opportunity to live a day in her life over again, her 12th birthday. Once she does this she realizes how terrible we humans are, how much we take for granted. - that is the basic story line. Simon Stimson, the town drunk, tells Emily this epic line when she returns from her second 12th birthday, its my favorite line in the whole show - "Yes. Now you know. Now you know: that's what it was to be alive . To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down, trampling on the feelings of those - of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know - that's the "happy" existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness!"- and that pretty much sums up the message I am trying to deliver. In the words of the beloved Belinda (oh, how I'll miss her)- SEIZE THE DAY! Liz out.
At the beginning of this summer I set out with the goal to make every day worth while, to create millions of memories. The kind of memories you look back on and cant stop that warm grin from creeping on to your face. Well its august now, and there are very few of those warm, giggly memories coming to mind. Time passes us by so quickly. Every day millions of opportunities are denied the chance to evolve into something beautiful.
During Artstrek 2006, the theatre camp I recently attended, we explored the well known play Our Town by Thornton Wilder. This play is incredibly moving, I don't suggest you read it at home because it would take a lot of focus and imagination to get through the first act (the beginning is kinda boring), but if you ever get the chance to see it live, DO IT! The play is set in the early 1900's and is narrated by a Stage Manager, the first act shows us daily life in the small town of Grovers Corners. I takes us into the homes of the Webb family and their neighbors the Gibbs family. The second act is about love and marriage, a romance develops and flourishes between young George Gibbs and the girl next door, Emily Webb. The third act is about death. Emily died giving birth at the age of 23. She travels up to the grave yard on a hill, where she chats with the rest of the deceased and watches her own funeral take place right before her eyes. Than she is given the opportunity to live a day in her life over again, her 12th birthday. Once she does this she realizes how terrible we humans are, how much we take for granted. - that is the basic story line. Simon Stimson, the town drunk, tells Emily this epic line when she returns from her second 12th birthday, its my favorite line in the whole show - "Yes. Now you know. Now you know: that's what it was to be alive . To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down, trampling on the feelings of those - of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know - that's the "happy" existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness!"- and that pretty much sums up the message I am trying to deliver. In the words of the beloved Belinda (oh, how I'll miss her)- SEIZE THE DAY! Liz out.
posted by Liz @ 8:33 PM
1 Comments:
At August 11, 2006 9:59 PM,
Anonymous said…
Sounds like a wicked play, i'll try and see one sometime. And if you wanna look back at every day with a grin, just do some stupid shit daily with good friends, works splendid i find :P.
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