More
playing today, and some mask work. I’m liking these people more and more. Gaba,
a Slovakian actress who has a young child. She’s playful and very funny.
Florencia, Argentinia and so vibrant it almost hurts. She’s fluent in French as
well as English, both with a very satisfying accent. Laconic German Günther –
doesn’t say much but what he does is well worth waiting for. Beary Czech Stan,
French Cécile, all ginger curls and hilarity. So many more people. The morning
took a long time to get going but this afternoon’s playing was a real delight.
We made
masks by sticking a flour/salt/oil dough to a decorative kind of mask. Still
made it pretty good and it’s given me workshop ideas for sure – I’ve been
wondering for ages how to make mask-making quicker (and therefore more
accessible for kids) without losing the kinaesthetic satisfaction of sculpting
a face. I loved the scenes we did with them. They were ace pie.
We went
for a little forest walk, the whole group of us, which ended with a very
pleasant stroll through heavy rain on the way back. While some people cowered
under trees, those of us who love to get rained on made the most of it. No harm
done and I wouldn’t change a single thing. The wildflowers and sweet peas we
passed were humblingly pretty, their greens and pinks and purples lit up with
poppy reds and pansy oranges, streaked with black.
I did
pranayama, meditation and chanting this morning. It rocked, though I was a bit
pigeon-pecky during satsang (I dropped my Kirtan book thanks to being blatantly
asleep). I also had 45 minutes of actual napping when I got back to the room
after breakfast.
My, I
ate some good vegetables today. Can’t beat that.
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