The opening of Act Two. Instinct: A musical call to action
“THE EVOLUTION REVOLUTION”
HÄR ÄR HIS-TOR-I-AN OM MÄN-NI-SKAN
SOM TAR FART NÄR DI-NO-SAU-RIER-NA FÖR-SVANN
DET BÖR-JAR MED EN FYR-BENT, HÅ-RIG APA
SOM BA-RA KUN-DE Ä-TA, GRÖNT, OCH RA-PA
CAVE-MEN WERE IN FACT IN-TEL-LIGENT
SPREA-DING KNOW-LEDGE WHERE-E-VER THEY WENT
THEY KILLED WITH CLUBS AND BARE HANDS WHEN THEY HUN-TED
THEY UNDER-STOOD EACH OT-HER WHEN THEY GRUN-TED
THEY GRABBED SOME STICKS AND STAR-TED MA-KING FIRE
THEY PAIN-TED CAVES TO EX-PRESS THEIR DE-SIRES
THEY TAUGHT THEM-SELVES TO SUB-TRACT AND DI-VIDE
BUT WITH WHEELS AND WEA-PONS, TROU-BLE MUL-TI-PLIED
NOW’S THE TIME WHEN MAN STARTS TO IN-VENT
EX-PANDING ON WHAT LIFE TO HU-MANS MEANT
DY-NA-MITE AND MORE COM-MU-NI-CA-TION
BROUGHT HAP-PY TIMES BUT GREA-TER COM-PLI-CA-TIONS
THE MO-DERN MAN A-BAN-DONED NA-TURE’S RULES
NOW HE DRIVES AND FLIES AND U-SES UP THE FUELS
CELL-PHONES, LAP-TOPS, T-V:S, LA-SERS, CLO-NING
KE-BAB PIZ-ZA AND THE A-TO-MIC BOMB!!!
IF YOU DON’T LEARN YOU’RE HIS-TO-RY
YOU’RE DOOMED TO RE-PEAT
WHAT GAVE YOU THE BRAINS
TO STAND ON TWO FEET?
IT’S THE E-VO-LU-TION RE-VO-LU-TION
RE-VO-LU-TION OF E-VO-LU-TION
FACE THE FACTS SO YOU CAN STAY ON TRACK
SO GET THAT TAIL OFF YOUR BACK
IT’S THE E-VO-LU-TION RE-VO-LU-TION
RE-VO-LU-TION OF E-VO-LU-TION
IT’S TIME TO SEE WHAT THE WORLD WOULD BE
E-RASING MAN FROM HIS-TO-RY
IT’S THE E-VO-LU-TION RE-VO-LU-TION
RE-VO-LU-TION OF E-VO-LU-TION
FACE THE FACTS SO YOU CAN STAY ON TRACK
SO GET THAT TAIL OFF YOUR BACK
Everyone here has Mac computers. Someone told us Lovewell be in a Mac add. I agree with them. Anyone out there have any connections?
This weekend I jumped off of a very high board into the freezing cold Baltic Sea.
Margie and I made the first ever Lovewell Scavenger hunt inspired by Phrank’s New Year’s Eve extravaganzas. We made the students run all over town. We thought there would be NO way they would finish. Every team DID finish…but we found out the reason why was because they did one of the follow: got a taxi, had some one’s grandma come get them and my favorite, HITCHHIKED with a PRIEST! HAHA! Umm…yeah, not safe in the United States, but really funny here in Sweden. Plus, they got him to promise to come see the show. I must say, I was proud of them.
The show is this coming weekend. We are going to have a party in a barn…possibly with real animals. =)
I am in Sweden with very little internet access. Eeek! I am pretty sure I keep getting myself into these technology absent situations for a reason…but it is also such a pain.
Here is a short list of the past weeks happenings:
-Flew to Copenhagen.
-Took a long train ride.
-Took a long bus ride.
-Went to 3 Swedish festivals in 3 different towns.
-Hung out in ‘beer tents.’
-Stood in the freezing cold Baltic Sea.
-Held a big jellyfish.
-Ate Kebab pizza, which I do not reccomend.
-Broke a ceiling tile over someone’s head (did not hurt them…just being funny.)
-Tried to see Mama Mia 3 times, but is has been sold out because the Swedes love Abba.
-Watched someone eat pizza with tuna and corn on it.
-Rode in a car with 4 adults, one 2 year old, 5 suitcases, a guitar and and a cat carrier with a cat inside of it.
-Oulined and entire musical.
-Accidentally said something very dirty in Swedish without knowing it and freaked out the students.
-Saw someone walking casually, turn, throw up, continue walking without missing a beat and then check her text messages.
-Played hide and seek with 30 people in a park.
In this picture is Ryan McCall, David Spangler and little Trevor Wayne (who is Gary Wayne’s (who directed Lovewel shows in Salina when we were kids) oldest boy.) Dang, this was one of those moments where you can FEEL the full circle.
New Lovewell shirts. Please note, this picture was taken with my feet!
More feet pictures!
Everyone in the bathroom?
Roar!
Good advice.
Okay, a lot more to come. Dang. We took one squillion pictures.
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Just dropped the gang off at the airport. Driving an empty 15 passenger van is weird and lonely.
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We ate at Buca last night and for the first time ever, had enough cash the first time around to pay the bill. You know what I mean? When you eat at those family style dining places and everyone doesn’t take every little item on the bill into account and then we are short $50 at the end. Well, it didn’t happen last night. I think that means we are finally growing up. Kates, I wish you could have witnessed it.
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The other night, we had 18 people in one dorm room.
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Leaving the country tomorrow- I haven’t packed one thing.
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This weekend is the Lovewell Festival of new works. We opened and closed the junior show, Scare Me Good (sometimes we enjoy improper grammar in our titles.) Twenty-five, nine through 13 year olds wrote this show about a game board where the pieces had to face all of their biggest fears. It was wonderful. Thursday, we opened Bound: A musical to believe in (sometimes we give show titles that sound little S & M like,) that was written by forty, thirteen through nineteen year olds. Tonight, we will close the festival and have a big reception for all involved. This year, in both programs, everyone has out done themselves. It is such an amazing transformation to be a part of.
Seriously, check out the blogs at lovewell.org
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Because so much is going on, these are the times when days seem like weeks and weeks seem like months and months seem like years. Yesterday, on the 4th of July, we had an all adult party at the Spangler house. For those of you who have ever been to the Spangler house, you must know that having an all adult party there is, well, it has never happened before. Don’t get me wrong- I adore all of the kids that come in and out of that house, it is just that we have been submersed in kidland every second of the past month. So, we bought a bunch of good food and spirits and invited a bunch of great people. There was singing, a little dancing, fireworks, people getting flobee’d (the weird haircutter that hooks up to a vaccum), surprise guests (Peggy Simms, choreographer from Salina, showed up with her daughter Jena) and just one hell of a good time. It is such an all over warm feeling to look around a room full of people, from all walks of your life, and know how blessed we all are. Of course that feeling also make me miss the people who were not there with us, but no worries- you got talked about.
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I still haven’t been able to get my visa to Russia, where I am supposed to be in one month. I am sure my mother thinks that is a sign. =)
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Here is a video from a rehearsal of Bound. It is a song about a political candidate that gets paid to make every move she makes. Yeah. Read into it.
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” -G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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What is that? Is that a sheet truck? Yep. Just saw a dude selling bedsheets out of the back of his truck. 2010-07-02
