An Abundance of Emptiness
Posted on October 7, 2007
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After months of highly-focused purposefulness, I find myself with time on my hands, and it’s a peculiar, unfamiliar sensation. Of course, there was Gemini the Musical to occupy my thoughts in the past months. I think it was John Weidman who once said to me that “there’s nothing quite as gone as a play that’s closed.” Indeed, a play production is a community of people synergistically energized by a common task, but once the play is closed, all of that energy returns to the default state of entropy, and the few keepsakes of the production – the photos, the mementos, the script, the score – retain very little of the magic. And then, suddenly, the Phillies won the National League East championship, and there was baseball to pay attention to for a few bright days! But as I clicked off the television after the final out in the Rockies’ three game sweep of the Phillies, I could see the darkness of another attention-void growing. Today, I spent the day in neutral, riding in the backseat of our friend Michael’s car (riding, not driving! Imagine that!) as we rode to the shore, visiting sites on Long Beach Island, Strathmere and Sea Isle City. As we rode, I slipped easily back and forth between awake and asleep. The sights were pleasant, the company congenial, but nothing commanded my attention, and I arrived home rested and mellow. Tomorrow I’ll have to shake off this ennui and take another stab at organizing my European sojourn – schools to visit and a holiday adventure to will into existence.
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