Sunday 4PM 8/30: 'Chrysalis' #21: STATES
"This Land Was Made for You AND Me"
-Woody Guthrie, capitals implied
Hey Hartlist,
No I didn't watch the RNC and no this post is not going to be about All That... much.
Because it is hard, isn't it, right now to think about anything besides All That? Personally, I love to try to avoid thinking about things, whatever The Thing may be. It's how most of my cakes get baked and Netflix shows get watched. AND how a lot of writing projects begin... though they usually sneakily take me right back to The Thing itself.
But often The Thing, if I may keep this idea going, is so large it's kind of hard to confront or take in even if we want to. I'm working right now on a (mini) opera commission, which I was told could be about anything. The only guideline was "something American". As someone said to me recently, "That's a pretty big topic". It is. When something is too big sometimes it helps to break it into pieces. Maybe ...50 pieces. *
* no I will no do 50 songs.
This week's livestream will be (dis)organized as usual around one word and this time it's "STATES". Let's see what happens. There will be some comedy, some returning small special guests, and wherever the open road takes us. See you Sunday at 4 on the FaceBook.
RH