this actual now-ness: December 2008

Friday, December 12, 2008

The Nutcracker Ballet

For my birthday this year, Beth, Celeste, Julia and I went to the Nutcracker Ballet at the Kennedy Center. It was beautiful and lovely. It was everything I had always hoped it would be :) Finally, I can cross one more thing off my "Things To Do In My Lifetime" list! Yay!

Waiting for the show to start

That night I kept thinking about Pandora's box. I wondered why someone would put a good thing such as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnapping and murder. It was fortunate that it was there, though. If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear wars and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics. There must have been another box with all the good things in it, like sunshine and love and trees and all that. Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Maybe it was Worry. Even when everything seems fine and good, I worry that something will go wrong and change everything.
-from Walk Two Moons

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.
-from Love Actually

this actual now-ness

Friday, December 12, 2008

The Nutcracker Ballet

About Me

Labels

Blogging Buddies

Blog Archive

Words