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Monsoon - I felt transported to the humid village, as though I was vacationing with my own Indian grandmother. I felt the mosquito bites, heard the screeching peacocks, and felt the love of a grandchild being given a big kid ice cream out of pity for his young innocences.

Wow.

Reading backstage in between set changes on a production of Oliver! The Musical. It’s been easy to read and relate to during this first weekend of shows. Sitting in blue overhead lights reading by pocket-sized plans light, as I pine over The Artful Dodger and the role of Fagan.

“Even when the natural world is at a point of apocalyptic destruction, man is still the harbinger of misery and death.”