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January 25, 2008

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we are racing time

and it's just never ending

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Then and Now

Well it's been 17 days since I posted. I work at a seafood chain restaurant here in France. There are a lot of lobsters cut in half, oysters, slabs of fish, and traceable Norwegian smoked salmon, IE: fish farmed. T here are 13 Amarine's, it is connected to other chains. One is cafeteria style with that mystical french twist where things still get cooked for you on the spot. There are others that feature pizza, house brewed beer, and Mexican cuisine - they've got it all, making this a large corporation in intent and style. The French: the clients are generally kind and patient, although they occasionally laugh unrepentantly at how I speak and assume I don't understand. I guess I've come to realize that as much as that affects me it displays the ignorance of that person or family, and I realize it is something entirely wanting in them - not I. Have you left your village? The staff do the same - they don't typically laugh but they do assume I don't u...

The Village is Mine!

Life is full, full of it's travesties and tragedies. We are beyond adversity. I am a fierce warrior in a far off land. Is that a cliché? Is that? I feel like I am talking to myself and the dead lay at my feet in numbers. Time has perturbed the wasted. I had but one day and I am at the finale. I am accursed, I am asunder. I must resume my post after one day of rest and 37 days of haste. I am in a medieval village and it was full of costumes in numbers. Prose and poesy did abound in my festival town. Avignon has just had a theatre festival for which I was employed. It was full of many days (37) and long, long hours. The festival itself ran from July 6th to July 28th. There are two components - The IN and The OFF . The IN had far fewer productions but included the productions invited and paid for by the festival. While the OFF was composed of numerous troupes trying to sell their show, gain recognition and/or exposure. And, I presume, for the love of theatre. Bu...

Hear Today

This is the beginning. Only the beginning. We have so much more in front of us. I hear "there's the Moon, there's the Moon." I am going to meet her. The sky is falling and I am yearning to greet her. Love, Life, & Laughter. I'll not be in the dark for too long.

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