tinkpixie0621 | (no subject)

I feel like I haven’t posted in so long, that I need a “check in.”

I’m a jumble of emotions….excitement, anger, remorse, fear…

But above all, hope.

Been holed up at the theatre much of the time. Winter’s Tale opens tonight, and as is appropriate for a tale that was to pass the time during the cold, dark of a winter’s night, it’s long. But from the audience response to the first 2 previews, I think we’ve got a good show on our hands. So ya’ll come! www.shakespearetavern.com

captnsparrow is working on refinishing a guitar for me. Can’t wait to get to play it!
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Robert Fulghum is a genius, by the way. Picked up my copy of “All I Really need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” not too long ago, and came across this little anecdote about how his laundry machine at home broke and he had to go to the Laundromat. I just have to share this, cause it made me smile.

“Sitting there waiting, I contemplated the detergent box. I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash. Sitting there late at night, leaning against the dryer for warmth, … I got to brooding about the meaning of life and started reading the stuff on the Cheer Box. Amazing. It contains ingredients to lift dirt from clothes (anionic surfactants) and soften water (complex sodium phosphates). Also, agents to protect washer parts (sodium silicate) and improve processing (sodium sulfate), small quantities of stuff to reduce wrinkling and prevent fabric yellowing, plus whiteners, colorant, and perfume. All this for less than a nickel an ounce. It’s biodegradable and works best in cold water-ecologically sound. A miracle in a box.
Sitting there watching the laundry go around in the dryer, I thought about the round world and hygiene. We’ve made a lot of progress, you know. We used to think that disease was an act of God. Then we figured out it was a product of human ignorance, so we’ve been cleaning up our act-literally-ever since. We’ve been getting the excrement off our hands and clothes and bodies and food and houses.
If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit frizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.
Don’t try Cheer, by the way. I tasted it. It’s awful. (But my tongue is clean, now.)”

I sure wish I had that little miracle in a box to fix everything that’s gone wrong lately, both in the world at large and in my own life and the lives of those that I care about. Don’t go eating it, now, but here’s a big box of virtual Cheer for all of you.