Gifts

My friend Sandra, brilliant beautiful artist, thinker, and human being. She travelled 5 hours by train from Munich to be here for the opening night.

I couldn´t have known in advance, but in retrospect, she is the person I would have chosen to have here for those 24 hours. She understood completely that I needed to be totally focussed on rehearsal and prep right through the day. Without being asked, she took on the role of unconditionally generous just tell me what you need me to do support. From videotaping the show, to pinning up the back of my hair before I went on. I hope I can do the same for her one day.

As if that wasn´t enough, she gave me a box of Schoko Maroni, delectable chestnut-puree-stuffed chocolates, before she left. We had a couple of hours to hang out together yesterday morning before I saw her off at the train station. She had to get back to Munich for her own performance tonight. Her energy is still with me, as I savor the chocolates, and pass them around at the Kosmos Theater.