My parents are coming!

Last night I bought two tickets for Legends, a play starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans. My dad might like it, but it's really my mom who'll enjoy it more because I remember that she used to watch Dynasty all the time when I was younger.

Anyway, for the benefit of the few who are reading this and looking forward to my parents' arrival, here's their Broadway-in-Toronto sked:

Mon, Oct 2, 3 pm - Forever Plaid (c/o Tita Ying)
Tue, Oct 3, 2 pm - South Pacific (c/o Tita Gee)
Wed, Oct 4, 2 pm - Legends

I'm actually the one who's always been into Broadway, but for some reason, my parents seem to have "inherited" my taste =)

"The Dash" by Linda Ellis

When I was in first-year high school, Bro. Jim Dunne, SJ, came into our classroom and wrote this on the board: "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die."

It sounds rather morbid for high school boys, but it's very true. He wanted us to think about how we would spend that time. Would we waste it or make it count?

Anyway, I remembered this because I just received an email that I would normally ignore. The email had a link to a "movie" based on a poem—"The Dash" by Linda Ellis—that focused on the "dash" between the date of birth and the date of death that usually appears on tombstones. A little Googling led me to the following:

Poem - Read the words as you listen to the author read the poem
Movie - Read the poem with images and background music
Song - Listen to a sample of the poem turned into a song
Story - Read and/or listen to how the author came to write the poem

It's probably good to reflect once in a while on the "dash" to which our lives will eventually be reduced.


Thanks to Weng Meneses for the email =)

Caitlin

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Caitlin is an artist. Sed was the one who invited me to Boston. Caitlin and Sed are, quite obviously, together =)

I took the photos on the busiest shopping street in Boston, MA, on 16 July 2006.

Birthdays

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Thank God, for relatives!