What's in your Book of Grace?
Here's what's in mine:
1 April 2010:
- A woman and her friend came to the show tonight. The woman is
studying at Hunter College. She uses a wheelchair. Her friend
brought her to the show in celebration cause she's doing really well
in school. After the show we hung out in the lobby and talked about
the show and took pictures. Then they went home, via the bus. When
they arrived uptown, Amy, our production stage manager, was getting
off the subway and arriving uptown on the same street at the same
time. Amy spotted the ladies; she recognized them from the audience
and they all stood on the street corner talking about the play.
-Students from Odyssey House came to the show tonight. I met them in
the lobby too. The show had them all jazzed up. They're writing a
play together and wondered how long it takes to write a play and if
takes longer to write all the "layers" in it. I told them it took me
awhile to write this play, but, since they're all working together,
it might not take them as long as it took me.
Truly, we depend on each other.
Right on & Pass it on
xoxoxox
SLP
After seeing your wonderful play, I realized that my (now deceased mother) is Grace. She wasn't as chipper as Ms. Marvel, but something you said in the talk back really stuck with me - she is an optimist because she goes on. She pulls herself out of that hole and survives. Only an optimist can do that. My mother had a very hard life. Often times, I viewed her as a victim, trudging along life with all these burdens...Now I see her as a survivor who went on with optimism because life was worth living and there was some good in the world. Because really, she could have just given up. Even at the end, with cancer, she fought it and kept on living until God took her. Thank you for helping me reconnect with my mother!
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