beautiful Wednesday morning....

probably the nicest day we have had so far. Reminds a little bit of the morning of 9/11---that was, incredibly, a strangely beautiful morning, I remember going early to vote in the Democratic Primary and returning home, enjoying the energy of the day. Of course, in a little while, that had all ended---but that is the memory.
    Yesterday, went to Friends, participated in discusssion with Jason and others re the House on Human Street, lots of didactic statements, some had not really read the whole book, so it was hard to get a picture of the core of it--nevertheless, glad that I came---happy to support Jason---after that it was on to the student one acts at McCray. This was a wonderful experience. Five one acts: four short and one longish musical. Terrific spirit by all involved, the acting was on a very high level, there is really a lot of talent in the school at this point. The four short one acts were very much written by playwrights at the "beginning" of their playwriting life (three were by sophmores and one by a juniora) but each one had at least one moment when a real individual spark and uniqueness revealed itself. The fifth piece, an ambitious musical, written by a sophmore showed real style and potential---a little derivitive, but what isn't these days. It included a terrific take off on sesame street, that was the best of it---, the composer-author Fouad really knows that world---I will suggest that for his next project he choose a story or fable to musicalize---something that would demand more discipline from him. But the overall spirit of the afternoon was extremely positive and infectious. Again, lots of students at Friends seem to be theater oriented at this point, it will be interesting to see how Steve uses all of them in the coming years.
  The plan was then to go to the Kitchen to see Mike's mini musical but soon after leaving Friends, tiredness set in---felt it was best to go home and rest----wonder why at certain moments I feel so sleep deprived---maybe because I get up so early--4:00 seems to begin my morning these days. We will see what happens today, when I have (I think) two sessions---how tired I am at 7; might want to check out Mike's musical tonight, or maybe go to Bushwick. Well, we will see.
Not much else to say---feeling "groovy" as the song goes---will report on the events probably tomorrow.