Friday, September 19, 2008

Yowza -- been a long time

Been a loooooooong time since I've been a blogging.
Three years to be exact, but folks keep bugging me to write again, so here I am.
So much has changed (for one thing, I'm over 30!!!), but to quote dear old Uncle Walt: "Things don't change, we change."
I have been battered and broken a little bit (weeeeel, a lot a bit) since 2005, but in a beautiful way ....(brokeness is where the healing is) and I am standing taller and with an even deeper tenderness, maturity and vulnerability today than before.
So, I'm back in Blog (and back in black).
More to come soon, but here's the skinny:
Tomorrow morning I'm heading up to Poughkeepsie to begin workshopping my new show (Drugged up Love), and last week I booked two other acting gigs.
:)
When I'm not acting and hanging out with my dog and thinking up reasons to travel or to go out nature (hard to do do after almost 8 years of living in New York City but I'm a native Pacific Northwesterner and the lakes, mountains and trees will never leave me), I read. (So I can therefore escape to the lakes, mountains and trees inside my vast imagination, though right around this time of year I'm usually desperate for a week away from the calamity of Manhattan.) But I digress.
After watching the stunning film Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, I wanted to buy the book, so went on to Amazon and did the whole click to order thing and saw another book called Blankets by Craig Thompson.
I bought both of em!
And I'm a comic newbie -- but now a comic convert!!!!!
Equally as stunning, and like Persepolis did, Blankets resonated with me on so many different levels, especially spirtitually and developmentally. My teen years were tough (whose weren't???), and Blankets helped me feel immediately less alone and more able to talk about growing up as an evangelical Christian in an increasingly anti-evangelical culture (for good reason).
I was raised in an A of G church and went to an extraordinarily evangelical school from the age of 12 to 18, and acting professionally from the age of 15 on wards was one of my only outlets for the extremism and legalism and confusing emotionalism/pressure involved with having to As Ann Putnam says inThe Crucible (oh the genious of Arthur Miller) , "seek loose spirits".
Anyways...........back to work and more to come.
Luv
Erin