Adelaide addenda - community

Llysa here. This is a wordy, thoughtful one. fair warning.

Easter. Travelling ADL - SYD - Wellington, NZ. Choccies in bag (Haighs bunny and a Humpty Dumpty egg filled with smaller eggs)
So - we are sipping Cooper's Sparkling (ahhh!) at the Adelaide airport, online FREE, thanks to Internode. How incredibly civilized... and I am thinking about the last conversation we just had - with a customer service rep for Qantas as we were checking in. She had seen a few things at the Fringe, not as much as she wanted, but she had heard about us, and Caravan Chronicles in Glenelg. (She lives there, I guess).

It is thrilling and humbling, actually, to think that people note us, for any reason, yet I suppose we strive in all our paths for such recognition. Yesterday, we went to a SANFL footy match - West Adelaide against Sturt. The Bloods vs the Double Blues. It seems as if Sturt has prevailed the last 13 years or so.... and yesterday it looked like that record was to be upended. 3000+ people were howling, thrashing and yelling encouragement or epithets at various players. (And referees - that seems to be universal). After a lopsided first half, Westies began to win, eking out points after grisly single point, instead of running off with 6's. Final score - 76-67. Double Blues. (That one's for you, Pete.) Actually, the stats for Bloods scoring with high marks was better, but you could see them struggling just to run down the field at the end of the match.
But still game, and still running. Aggressively matching and still leaping to the last horn.

I know the feeling. After this incredible effort to be here in Adelaide, running after venues, audiences and (insert need here), then running after friends to catch up, I feel the exhaustion catch up with me. And the emotional cost - nearly all this time my mom has been in and out of the hospital, plus all the producer-y stuff theater simple IS, but I am still running, toward whatever the future holds. And while, due to fatigue, I may be a little slower, I am aiming better, I think. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the Pacifica tour holds, in terms of discovery. And then we tour the South (Orlando, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia.)

Right now, I am looking at cruising and thinking. Travels with good friends, to new places. Life is pretty good, and my spirits are rising on Easter.

Tip for a big sip. And a look toward the goals before I start running again.

muchas smoochas - thanks Adelaide. (And my family - both of blood and of love. You know you overlap.)

sorry for the goo - sometimes sweets melt on Easter...