Balancing full-time teaching with a private voice studio and theatre can be challenging. An exercise in prioritizing. People, for instance, are more important than things like ‘housework’. I remember my mother saying: “Leave it, Mary Beth. It’ll keep. ‘They’ won’t.” My mother was a very wise woman, ahead of her time.
Driving to rehearsal last week I heard an interesting report on NPR about how the linguistics of ‘homemaker’ to ‘stay-at-home mom’ had changed over time. Along with the change in language came a change in the culture of family dynamics. The report further stated that in a very clear downward spiral from our parents and grandparents generations, most of us struggle with keeping our homes clean.
Color me guilty!
Last week’s ‘water cooler talk’: Renee’ Fleming’s performance of the National Anthem (and Vera Wang’d) at the Super Bowl, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s untimely death splashed with the usual meaningless political and sports chatter: local and otherwise. On Tuesday Facebook’s 10th Anniversary sixty-two second DIY bio-pics went viral.
Friday night a stage manager friend and I went to dinner and a play; “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”. The play wasn’t a light evening but it was certainly cathartic and well wort the effort. Timely. An examination of our own personal betrayals, our own lapses of belief and who we look to for forgiveness. The original production had been directed by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2005.
Time marches on. No stopping it.
When it gets down to it, keeping our ‘homes clean’ like most everything else, it’s about choice. What we allow in: Resentment. A sense of betrayal. Entitlement. …..or….. Gratitude. Joy. Love. Grace.
Choose wisely….decorate with love and trust the mystery….no telling what you may find…
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