life can be funny sometimes #2/acting lesson

when I think of my mother at my age I  think of a woman whose permanent uniform was any apron size XL.......while on some days I may look that way or at the very least feel that way...i could never imagine my mother doing things that I  have done when I was her age...now don't get me wrong...she had many accomplishments and at the ripe old age of 62 graduated from college....God bless her

but would she have thought of swimming  40, 50 or 60 lengths of a pool in one shot...riding on a canoe with a local deep into the jungles of Panama, being the oldest teeny bopper in some of the hip rock clubs in New York watching one of her kids tear it up on stage or taking acting classes and then going to try out an English accent for an audition?  I don't think so.... but they say 50 is the new 30 , 60 the new 40 etc. etc.  so I guess that leaves us lots of time to play...and play I did....especially the acting..

Now there are those who know me who wondered why I even bothered to take lessons....as the stage in one form or another is just a natural part of my existence...never put me near a microphone or a camera...it is like a moth to the flame, but take acting I did....and not only found out that I loved it and had a natural bent for comic timing but also that acting was a metaphor for life.....stay focused, stay in the moment , listen to what your partner says, work with your partner and commit , commit, commit. Once you do that you will find it can bring you to another place...it is almost transcendental..

It is just that some of us are better actors than others and some handle life better than others....so you gotta ask yourself the question.....if like shakespeare says all the world's a stage ...would you want to buy tickets to your show???