My Own Lake Bonny

I was not enthused at all my getting this assignment. Not at all, I am an extremely busy person with no extra time. I am working on the show, “Jane Eyre: The Musical” at Southeastern and last week every rehearsal ended around 10 or 11 o’clock, leaving the cast exhausted from continuous rehearsing. The weekend following, the cast and I spent many hours taking down the set (that we previously built) in the workshop, loading it into the truck, and then unloading into the Polk Theatre to build it again so we can practice for the rest of the week until we open for the pre-show Thursday. Then last night, Monday we spent around 6 to 7 hours (until mid-night) rehearsing and setting up the stage. This is not counting the other rehearsal’s I have for other projects during the day or any of the many papers due. It was as if I had no free time, no free time at. I currently don’t even have the time or gas money to get groceries for myself.

At this point, you readers out there probably think I’m a big complainer, but I am not, I just want people to understand my circumstances. So, obviously I didn’t have the time or gas money to go to Lake Bonny and when I did it was too late at night. So I created my own Lake Bonny, in a quiet place, in my dorm room. It’s not what the assignment required, but it was the best I could do.

Sitting there in the early morning, reading short passages from, “The State of the Planet”, was so calming. It was so nice just to sit, be quiet, and read. When your life feels like your going non-stop, these moment of peace and reflection mean so much. It was beautiful. I felt the need to be honest in this blog post and I hope that can be respected. With all this said, it does not mean I won’t be going to Lake Bonny. I just got a check in the mail from my church (I am a fill in youth-pastor for the youth group every Saturday night I’m not performing) so I will be going this Friday morning. If reading fragments of poems in the peace of dorm room gave me joy and solitude, I am excited to see what’s going to happen when I am actually surrounded by nature, experiencing poetic nature in all it’s glory.