A very good day. (Now with ETA)
This weekend has been one of my best in what seems like a long time.
The Easter play went very well this morning. We performed it twice, in lieu of the regular church services. I was pleased with my performance. It felt good. Perhaps not amazing or incredible, but solid, emotional. (And apparently, real. One of the men told Geo and me that he got so wrapped up in the scene that he forgot we were people he knew. That's a huge compliment.) More importantly, I heard that the production inspired a lot of questions from children to their parents and got a lot of people to thinking. We also had 45 first-time visitors, which is pretty impressive.
Geo and I are not with our families this year, so we really didn't know what we were going to do after services. However, we were invited at the last minute to have Easter dinner with a family from the church. Several church families, the hosts' neighbors, etc. were there. A delicious spread and good company.
Then I get home and find this:
and this:
and this:
Now, this is going to sound incredibly cheesy, but my heart is so full right now, I don't know if I can adequately share with you what I feel. Those of you who have followed this journal for a while know that I draw inspiration for my own acting from Jensen. ( Click for specifics.) I admire immensely his ability to make any dialogue sound believable and natural, and how he can tap into emotions and just "go there" with such passion and control. He can play the entire range of emotions, and his characters always have something going on underneath (meaning he plays more than just the surface level). And then I watch these videos, and I don't know how I can admire him any more than I already do, but I do, and there it is. Yet another level of admiration and--yes, I'm going to use the word--love for this incredibly talented and generous man whom I've never met and who wouldn't know me from Jane Doe if we met on the street. Sometimes it just sort of hurts to realize that chances are I will never meet this man in person. Right now is one of those times. And right now I feel so incredibly . . . blessed . . . to know of this man and to get to observe his work.
I know that this all sounds incredibly over the top, and maybe it is. But I can't help it, really. My history, my interests, and my experience all lead me here, to this sense of admiration and just . . .
Yeah.
It's been a good day.
ETA: And the day just gets better! I found, completely unexpectedly, while looking for something else entirely, my mementos, reviews, script, etc. from The Threepenny Opera. I haven't been able to find them in ages. And there they were, with the rest of my play scripts. \o/
The Easter play went very well this morning. We performed it twice, in lieu of the regular church services. I was pleased with my performance. It felt good. Perhaps not amazing or incredible, but solid, emotional. (And apparently, real. One of the men told Geo and me that he got so wrapped up in the scene that he forgot we were people he knew. That's a huge compliment.) More importantly, I heard that the production inspired a lot of questions from children to their parents and got a lot of people to thinking. We also had 45 first-time visitors, which is pretty impressive.
Geo and I are not with our families this year, so we really didn't know what we were going to do after services. However, we were invited at the last minute to have Easter dinner with a family from the church. Several church families, the hosts' neighbors, etc. were there. A delicious spread and good company.
Then I get home and find this:
Click to viewand this:
and this:
Now, this is going to sound incredibly cheesy, but my heart is so full right now, I don't know if I can adequately share with you what I feel. Those of you who have followed this journal for a while know that I draw inspiration for my own acting from Jensen. ( Click for specifics.) I admire immensely his ability to make any dialogue sound believable and natural, and how he can tap into emotions and just "go there" with such passion and control. He can play the entire range of emotions, and his characters always have something going on underneath (meaning he plays more than just the surface level). And then I watch these videos, and I don't know how I can admire him any more than I already do, but I do, and there it is. Yet another level of admiration and--yes, I'm going to use the word--love for this incredibly talented and generous man whom I've never met and who wouldn't know me from Jane Doe if we met on the street. Sometimes it just sort of hurts to realize that chances are I will never meet this man in person. Right now is one of those times. And right now I feel so incredibly . . . blessed . . . to know of this man and to get to observe his work.
I know that this all sounds incredibly over the top, and maybe it is. But I can't help it, really. My history, my interests, and my experience all lead me here, to this sense of admiration and just . . .
Yeah.
It's been a good day.
ETA: And the day just gets better! I found, completely unexpectedly, while looking for something else entirely, my mementos, reviews, script, etc. from The Threepenny Opera. I haven't been able to find them in ages. And there they were, with the rest of my play scripts. \o/