I’ll tell you what’s fun. Living in this area and having so many options of things to do and then never really doing them. This is usually the case with me, lots of interest, little motivation. maybe if I had slept through the night more than five times in the last 11 years this would be different. However, however, this past weekend was a veritable smorgasbord of stamina. Well, On Friday night and Saturday anyway. Sunday was a different story….
On Friday night I went to the Philip Pearlstein opening to have a drink with my Lymeline editor ( oh, and see the art). It was excellent motivation on my part and even the lugubrious I-95 traffic groping down Lyme Street was not a deterrent. By Friday evening I usually want to lie prone while having a Chardonnay IV hooked up but this was too good to miss.
The Lyme Art Academy is calling me. I paint and could really use a good honing of my basic drawing skills. They also call when they have someone like Mr. Pearlstein. He was so candid and honest about how and why he does what he does that I moved past years of grudges against pontificating art persons. ( Think Robert Hughes, who once rendered me comatose and furious concurrently with a condescending chat about himself and his considerable art connections).
After a lovely evening with a very good * bowl of salmon spread and very entertaining people ( Olwen Logan, Betty Cuningham, Phil and my eleven year old**) I was further inspired to explore the Lyme Congregational Rummage Sale the next morning, where many many unnecessary but desperately needed items were purchased. A bike, talking Pokemon head (not for much longer I assure you), a kerosene holder, half a walkie-talkie, some plastic horses, and a stable set. If you roll your eyes I will tell you everything I had to eat that day too so watch it.
Then I sent my brood off to the RC Prop Buster remote control plane show in Salem. (If you are going to comment that because I did not actually go this requires very little motivation on my part, please reference last week’s article involving the spontaneous location of six individual matching children’s shoes….)
This was a large hit as well. Are you seeing now why I am so impressed with myself? Not to plug my Monsieur Bartlett ( so to speak ), I will say that in large part this extraordinary initiative comes from reading here all the myriad things there are to do on the Shoreline. I am really impressed with the writers and ideas on SOA so far. How can I resist all these things to do? I can’t. Bring it on.
*really really good. still thinking about it.
** who wore a tutu and combat boots. She got more complements on being fabulous than I did- how is this fair??
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By the way Jen, we think you are fabulous, but 11 year old’s in combat boots are hard to beat.
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