UP ON THE HILL

was doing some research online this morning for OUR TOWN which i am directing next year (whew! or a few months from now) and i came across this AMAZING clip of paul newman playing the stage manager. even if you think you know this, i urge you to take a few minutes and watch it. one of the most deeply profound and moving things i have seen in a very long time...maybe ever



tomorrow is election day and i feel the eyes of the world upon it. such a very dark time in this country, the world, with a glimmer of life and light trying to peek through. i never thought i could be as angry as i was 8 years ago and then 4 years ago. it is the kind of red hot boiling emotion that makes you want to retreat from society. the only thing that kept so many people going was knowing that others felt just like them....that a horrible injustice had been served. i hope tomorrow that things will be different.

there is a picture in the sentinel today of a woman and her 7 year old daughter at an obama rally and they both look so full of hope. it boggles my mind to think that the only president that child has ever known is the evil that is currently in office. i hope her future is a brighter one...i truly do

and speaking of pix of people and their kids..here's me and my dad from two sundays ago



it was a strange and strangely wonderful day and expereince to be reunited with my father at a matinee of THE GLASS MENAGERIE. i felt a giant cloud rolling away for most of the day and as emily says in OUR TOWN...."it all happens so fast we don't even see each other"