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Oct. 21st, 2003
things learned
Oct. 21st, 2003 01:22 pmFrom Kiltboy:
Here's some fun: Pick a person on your LJ, and tell us one thing that you have learned from them during Faire season, or just in general.
Whitedragon: You can stand by what you believe, protect your friends, and have no regrets all at the same time.
Here's some fun: Pick a person on your LJ, and tell us one thing that you have learned from them during Faire season, or just in general.
Whitedragon: You can stand by what you believe, protect your friends, and have no regrets all at the same time.
There are those moments...
Oct. 21st, 2003 02:22 pmOne of the regular patron's, Black Fox, ex-wife just had an accident. The person in the car with her who was hurt was his son. Less than a week before, he was on stage with me helping me off my box in Stupina, Genius at Work. He is ok, he is still in the hospital and has casts and spine issues, but the prognosis was said to be good. I am relieved.
Black Fox informed me (and afr) that his son is wearing the Stupina medallion that I gave him over his cast. (The medallion is a wood burned "coin" with Stupina's face, MDRF and 2003 on one side, and "I'm a GENIUS too!" on the other. He, his son, and his daughter sat and sang the bowls song over and over in the hospital. Black Fox even hummed it on the way home.
I can't begin to express how much this means to me. When I read of the accident, my heart stopped. I remembered his son was the one on stage with me not 4 days prior. I was so relieved to hear he was alive and getting better. When Black Fox said that they all sang the bowls song to feel better and that his son is wearing the medallion, I lost it.
As a performer, the one thing that truly means the most to me is knowing that I have brought joy to someone else. It's why I love hearing laughter at my shows...it's not really ego, but knowing that I have touched them (or what I wrote has). (Though I am sure there is ego as well, it would be either unrealistic or a lie to say not.) But more important, I am proud to have a gift to share. One where I can make the world a better, happier place. One where silliness and singing and joy are not forgotten. And I am glad to be one of the precious few who is able to remind them.
Knowing that that bowls song was being sung in a hospital room to make an injured young boy feel better, to remove fear and offer relief, that he sits there with the medallion on and it makes whatever he is going through better, hurt less, whatever...it fills me with such awe and honor. It's a huge responsiblity, this gift. I am blessed, truly.
And I am crying again. Very little in this world can mean more than knowing you have helped bring joy to the world. Nothing brings it home more than something like this.
I thank everything in the universe that has allowed me to be where I am, to be able to offer these gifts, and I pray that nothing ever stops me from being able to continue to gift the world with joy.
Black Fox informed me (and afr) that his son is wearing the Stupina medallion that I gave him over his cast. (The medallion is a wood burned "coin" with Stupina's face, MDRF and 2003 on one side, and "I'm a GENIUS too!" on the other. He, his son, and his daughter sat and sang the bowls song over and over in the hospital. Black Fox even hummed it on the way home.
I can't begin to express how much this means to me. When I read of the accident, my heart stopped. I remembered his son was the one on stage with me not 4 days prior. I was so relieved to hear he was alive and getting better. When Black Fox said that they all sang the bowls song to feel better and that his son is wearing the medallion, I lost it.
As a performer, the one thing that truly means the most to me is knowing that I have brought joy to someone else. It's why I love hearing laughter at my shows...it's not really ego, but knowing that I have touched them (or what I wrote has). (Though I am sure there is ego as well, it would be either unrealistic or a lie to say not.) But more important, I am proud to have a gift to share. One where I can make the world a better, happier place. One where silliness and singing and joy are not forgotten. And I am glad to be one of the precious few who is able to remind them.
Knowing that that bowls song was being sung in a hospital room to make an injured young boy feel better, to remove fear and offer relief, that he sits there with the medallion on and it makes whatever he is going through better, hurt less, whatever...it fills me with such awe and honor. It's a huge responsiblity, this gift. I am blessed, truly.
And I am crying again. Very little in this world can mean more than knowing you have helped bring joy to the world. Nothing brings it home more than something like this.
I thank everything in the universe that has allowed me to be where I am, to be able to offer these gifts, and I pray that nothing ever stops me from being able to continue to gift the world with joy.
Chateau Benoit ships to WDC
Oct. 21st, 2003 03:16 pmWOW! I LOVE this winery. Amazing Pinot Noir. I need to find someone that lives/works there that might want to get shipments from me in the near future...hrmmmm.
