PLAY

Another beautiful day on Planet earth! Here on Laughing Water Farm, the Sun is shining brightly, and it promises to be warm. It is already 59 F at 10:42. I wrote AM, then I thought, isn't AM redundant, when it is clear, that it is Morning? With all the punctuation oddities that I make, I shouldn't worry about such things. This is an odd start to a blog.

I am a little shell-shocked. I looked at the debates for about five minutes. That is all I could take. What is happening? What country do I live in? Does the president have the authority to call off the election? Does any body? Congress? This is getting bizarre. Can't we, all, climb into a time machine and nominate two different candidates?

It doesn't take much research, on the internet, to discover the whole world is collapsing, especially the financial world. We could wake up some Morning and find all the banks are closed and supplies to our favorite grocery stores are cut off; and this is what they are debating!?

Most of the time, I keep my nose out of it, I know it has to collapse. I know we need to create anew on top of the ashes. Don't we all know a world, made from the worship of money and power, has to end? I just hope it could be more gracefully. Here, we have a pair of Neros, fiddling, while the world is consumed, in the flames, of failing imperial power.

If we get our noses out of the main stream media and look around our neighborhoods, we discover all kinds of people waking up. Their faces shine with light, as they go about their business, radiating love to a thirsty world. They may work in the hardware store, or they may carry out our groceries, we may meet them in the bank, they may smile at us as we pass them on the street; they are everywhere, people are waking up to the realization, that without love there is nothing.

Jamie and I visited another part of our little world yesterday. We went to St Croix Falls [just over the border into Wisconsin] to see the play, On Golden Pond, it was great. In fact it was so good, I was stunned. It was a small theater, perhaps seating 60, we sat in the front row. I have only felt such intimacy with actors once before, that was at the Guthrie, when we were, also, very close to the stage. I think, yesterday, was even better. I was amazed with the acting. It was flawless. And I was surprised at how good the play was. I saw the Henry Fonda, Kathryn Hepburn movie, 1981 I think. It was good, but I didn't appreciate the brilliance of the playwright.

One factor might be age. I was only 46 when the movie came out. I am, at an age, where I may resonate more with the character. The protagonist turns 80 in the play. It is a very worthwhile play, for any age, however.

It was a beautiful day and we traveled through areas of blazing Fall colors. We drove through Taylors Falls to get to St Croix Falls. Taylors Falls is on the Minnesota side of the river. We were entranced with the area, especially was Jamie, there were many little shops displaying art and highlighting cultural activity. It appeared to be a very desirable place to live. Could we move? Perhaps; but could we bring more cultural activity to our area? Perhaps we could build the Ogilvie Opera House. Crowd funding?

I got dishes to wash and chores to do.

Love and Peace, Gregg