In the “What the ???” department: April 18th. Snow.
I’ve seen snow in early April before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it this late. When I got up this morning, Don was saying “Isn’t it beautiful?” My response: “No.”
I can’t see any beauty in this heavy wet snow. But my consolation is the temperature reaching 49 today, so it will melt. But right now? It’s still snowing.
The lights have flickered twice, which seems ominous, so I’m going to try to get this published before I lose the draft.
We’re still watching Cheers on Netflix, tracking the story from the very beginning. Yesterday, we reached the end of the season, where the actor playing Coach, Nicholas Colasanto, died. We knew it was coming but it was if it was happening in real time. He was such a wonderful actor; no one but Colasanto could have played that character as real and without artifice as he did. He never commented – by that, I mean the actor never gave any indication that he was acting or that he was smarter than Coach in real life, and I’ve seen many actors fall prey to that. Actors and directors call that ‘commenting.’ No, it was from the heart, honest and beautiful and funny. Colasanto died 35 years ago, it hardly seems possible, and to us it was as if it had just happened. He was so gifted, so wonderful. Both of us were huge fans of Cheers, but we figured out that the reason we don’t always remember the earlier episodes was because we were very busy then. Don was constantly acting in plays and performing every night. I was in graduate school, attending classes during the day, rehearsing every night. Neither of us had a VCR in those days.
I’m reading Modern Nature by Derek Jarman. And I’m determined to start a jigsaw puzzle today.
Doing our best to stay focused, happy, and to deal with all of this in a positive way.
Stay safe. Stay home.
Happy Saturday.