An Adendum

Okay, so last time I posted I was all excited about the Shakespeare project and was going to be reading two plays a month. It seemed like a simple task. I'm still working on the Comedy of Errors and I've been enjoying it and I'll finish it before the month is out but I think two plays a month will not be happening. There's a lot going on, and there are a lot of things I'm putting above reading Shakespeare. Part of my problem may be that I use my textbook from my Shakespeare class, it has the complete works, detailed footnotes to help the modern reader and weighs about a ton.
At any rate I'm still getting some Shakespeare into my life and I'm glad for that. I'll hopefully have a proper write up on the Comedy soon.

Shakespeare Project

I haven't posted in ages, I've been focusing my attention on my art blog. At any rate I've recently decided to launch a new project in my life, one that I think would be good for blogging.
I've loved Shakespeare, possibly since my introduction in middle school, maybe later, but I love it. One of the best classes I took in college was a Shakespeare class. Recently I saw a pbs program on Shakespeare's plays and it made me remember how much I miss Shakespeare and could use more culture in my life. I've decided from that to read and reread Shakespeare's plays.
I've observed in the past, that I have an easier time reading a play if I've seen some rendition of it, so I will be watching at least one version of the plays I read, and then reading and writing about them. I'll be aiming to read two plays each month. I think I'll be reading The Comedy of Errors first. Feel free to read and comment along with me.

American Masters

Over the years I've enjoyed episodes of the PBS series American Masters. Yesterday I watched two of them that I quite enjoyed. I watched one about Johny Carson which was interesting and fun to see. I missed out on Carson being on the air and have only learned about him through such programs.
I also watched on about Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. It was interesting to learn a bit more about her and about what was going on in the country when her book came out. I now need to reread To Kill a Mockingbird.
Thank you American Masters.

kids today

This morning I got to bottle feed a very cute baby goat named Tinkerbell. I petted a goat kid (that's what you call baby goats if you didn't know) named Max. There were three other kids who's names I don't recall. I said hello to horses and grown goats and dogs and birds and an emu, which is also a bird. We visited my third grade teacher who's a farming sort of woman among other things. She's excited because she's learning to make cheese with goats milk. While I often sit around wasting my time and my life, there are people who live it up, every minute. I should really work on living a better life, one with more life in it. Maybe even more cute goat kids in it.

The thought that got me out of bed this morning was a line from a song that I heard on New Years Eve: what are you waiting for?? It was in the chorus and repeated over and over (with other words too but these were the ones I remembered.). It got me out of bed and now it's got me excited to go about my life and remind myself, what am I waiting for?

What are you waiting for?

This was powerful.

coldplay

What day couldn't be better for an awesomely large dose of Coldplay?