'Everything OK!'

Arrival at last!

Upon settling in yesterday evening I rode around checking out all that this tiny town has to offer.  How much you ask? nm. It seems to be very reminiscent of Goshen, only a bit smaller. I feel quite at home here, having gotten lost once on my ride and again this morning on my run.  I think that should be enough wandering for the rest of the summer.  My hub-points are as follows: home, Main Street Market (a member as of this morning; yay discounts!), library, theater. I would like to add one more but have not been inside yet:  a Chinese/Mongolian grill restaurant named 'Everything OK!' right outside our apartment door.  Come on down to Frankfort and you can try it out with me!

Official 'work' starts tonight.  I'm excited to know where all this is headed, as I know the past 24 hours have been filled with a lot of 'acquainting'- people and places.  The company that lives here in the apartments total 7. I think.  Right now there are a total of 2 guys and 2 girls.  I think the rest are coming later this week.

I decided to parallel these posts with a book I'm reading:  letters to a young artist by Anna D. Smith.  If you have it, I suggest you read each section with these blogs I will be periodically posting.  I'm going to start it off with the section entitled 'Exchanges' (p 43-46). Smith tells the story of her relationship with a boxer.  They open up to each other and find the other's art in a way they had not experienced before.  She ends the passage saying, "I think that tapping into the sheer joy of whatever it is that you do..., the sheer joy is what liberates us, opens the senses, the heart, the arteries, so that we feel that strong will to communicate that is greater than any chains we may have" (46).

God, let my joy flow with ease so that my communication both on stage and off is golden.