When Time Flies...
The passage of time is such a relative concept. It's interesting how I'll fall asleep if something is so boring and "takes so long" or "goes by so slowly." Yet, I'll say things like, "It went by so fast" or "It's over?" when things are exciting. Time never feels the same. I want the good times to slow down, to freeze, and I want the bad times to just pass because they're so difficult. All that said, I don't know how I feel about the concept of time. It's something that will always be there for me to check on, but I'll never want it to get the best of me. Each day I try to not let it control my life, but there I am, scheduling my next activity, checking the time, worrying about not having enough time, etc.
Back in July I remember thinking, "I wonder if life will always be this calm and slow." As much as I loved the quiet, the space, there was this little tick in the back of my head saying, "Enjoy it while you can! I'm time, and I'm coming to get ya." So, I decided to put off a couple of things until August 1st rolled around. I finished July by going on a lovely trip to California with Anthony, got back to Boston, and BAM! I knew it was coming, but boy, when the ball starts rolling, it doesn't really stop. It's now three weeks until I move to NYC.
Time slowly passed in July, then the trip flew by, and now I'm realizing this year has flown by. It's almost 2017, people! Time's escaped me since I last wrote a blog (I apologize to myself and my 3 confirmed fans, but I'm back and the blog is here to stay.)
Myself, Gabriela Banus and Natalia Ochoa.
Time has gone to the wind since Ginny passed. It was 8 years on July 27th, and I got to spend it with these two wonderful people in Los Angeles. Time really passed since I saw them last.
Time has flown and now my niece, Emilia, is 6 months! AND I get to meet her next week! I hope she likes me. Time has REALLY escaped me here in Boston. Five years living here. Three years in this beautiful apartment of mine. (Sad to say goodbye.) Five years at Back Bay Yoga, my home away from home. Two and a half years of an amazing relationship with my boyfriend, Anthony. I'm truly so lucky he loves me. Boy, time flies when you're in love.
I think the craziest example of the passage of time is a year since my last time on the stage. Well, guess what? The girl's back. Pauline, that is. I am so grateful to Richard Stafford and everyone at Westchester Broadway Theatre, and so proud to announce that I will be reprising my original role of Pauline in Saturday Night Fever. I am humbled to start this new phase in NYC with a job performing in a theatre.
Please come catch it starting September 15th, 2016. Click here for details and tickets!
Time... It's time I continue packing and ignore the clock for a while.
Time Xxi by Khalil Gibran
"And an astronomer said, "Master, what of Time?"
And he answered:
You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.
You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not form love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."