August already!
My lord, I can't believe it's a month and a half gone by since I last posted. As usual, summer seems to be sailing past me while I scramble to keep up. The days have passed so quickly I'm not even sure what's happened--the only thing I'm quite clear on is that the Minnesota Fringe Festival just wrapped up on Sunday night. I spent ten days racing around town with all the other theater fanatics, going from show to show to show, trying to drink it all in and becoming entirely theater-glutted and dizzy with the quantity of ideas, images, good shows and bad shows, conversations, debates, and all the attendant Fringe matter. It was a fine time. I was blogging daily on www.MinnesotaPlaylist.com, and if you're interested in some mutterings on theater, art, and things related, you can read my blog there. In any case, as always happens after a long spell of ridiculously intense focus on/immersion in a single thing, I've emerged a little disoriented. I was so saturated in theater (seeing it, talking about it, writing about it, thinking about it) that I forgot what regular life was like. But here it is, being its usual regular self, and I'm back to work on my usual regular things.
I also can't believe summer's coming to an end. August is stormy and richly green in the north, and the rain has my garden gloating in its fullness. But soonish the trees will start shaking out their hair and strewing leaves all over the streets, and fall will arrive. I'm not quite ready yet. The last of summer and all of fall hold a whole lot of work for me. I'm wrapping up the first of the Hazelden books, writing and giving a passel of lectures, then returning to work on the novel and the poems. Fall and winter are good work spells around here--you sort of hunker down as the weather turns cold, put on a sweater, and focus your attention a little more effectively. I'm looking forward to it. And I'm looking forward to the smell of woodsmoke and apple orchards and to long drives to see the leaves, and to the first snows...but good grief, not quite yet.
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Events upcoming...
Boston residents: I'm lucky enough to be giving the keynote at a fundraising dinner on September 22 for a wonderful organization called On the Rise (www.ontherise.org), which provides support to homeless women and women in crisis. I'm thrilled to be a part of this event, and if you live in those parts, I encourage you to get involved with this organization. They do remarkable work, and they could use your support.
Columbus, Ohio residents: The next day, I'm giving a talk at a fundraiser for an amazing new project called Melissa's House (www.melissasouse.org). Melissa's House is in the development stage of creating a facility for adults with severe and persistent mental illness--but not your ordinary facility. This will be a home-like setting that will foster independence and relationship-building. Read Melissa's Story on their website, and see if there's a way you can get involved.
New York residents: If you feel like a road trip, I'll be speaking on the topic of eating disorders at SUNY-New Paltz on November 4. I get an awful lot of mail from those parts asking me if I've got anything scheduled nearby--now I do. I'll also be reading at an independent bookstore in Skanekteles, NY the next evening. Details to follow.
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I think I just posted this prematurely by accident... oops. In any case, that's all the news I've got at the moment--will have more soon. Hope all of you are having a wonderful summer, and gearing up for a splendid fall.
Peace,
M
I also can't believe summer's coming to an end. August is stormy and richly green in the north, and the rain has my garden gloating in its fullness. But soonish the trees will start shaking out their hair and strewing leaves all over the streets, and fall will arrive. I'm not quite ready yet. The last of summer and all of fall hold a whole lot of work for me. I'm wrapping up the first of the Hazelden books, writing and giving a passel of lectures, then returning to work on the novel and the poems. Fall and winter are good work spells around here--you sort of hunker down as the weather turns cold, put on a sweater, and focus your attention a little more effectively. I'm looking forward to it. And I'm looking forward to the smell of woodsmoke and apple orchards and to long drives to see the leaves, and to the first snows...but good grief, not quite yet.
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Events upcoming...
Boston residents: I'm lucky enough to be giving the keynote at a fundraising dinner on September 22 for a wonderful organization called On the Rise (www.ontherise.org), which provides support to homeless women and women in crisis. I'm thrilled to be a part of this event, and if you live in those parts, I encourage you to get involved with this organization. They do remarkable work, and they could use your support.
Columbus, Ohio residents: The next day, I'm giving a talk at a fundraiser for an amazing new project called Melissa's House (www.melissasouse.org). Melissa's House is in the development stage of creating a facility for adults with severe and persistent mental illness--but not your ordinary facility. This will be a home-like setting that will foster independence and relationship-building. Read Melissa's Story on their website, and see if there's a way you can get involved.
New York residents: If you feel like a road trip, I'll be speaking on the topic of eating disorders at SUNY-New Paltz on November 4. I get an awful lot of mail from those parts asking me if I've got anything scheduled nearby--now I do. I'll also be reading at an independent bookstore in Skanekteles, NY the next evening. Details to follow.
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I think I just posted this prematurely by accident... oops. In any case, that's all the news I've got at the moment--will have more soon. Hope all of you are having a wonderful summer, and gearing up for a splendid fall.
Peace,
M
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