Naturally, we all seek harmony, understanding, and justice, right? Hardly, we all find our way, meandering through time and space, locating a few friends, realizing things we have in common, engaging our lives in some sort of vocation, and for the lucky ones, settling down with the one.... you know, the one that completes you. Isn't that what they say? I will expand on that thought another day. Today, I am going to focus on the disrupters.

You know who they are... we find kindred spirits.. those who we have things in common with.... those we work well together with... those who we can be create with... those we can work with... those we can play with... those we enjoy being around... and those other people come... the disrupters.

They come in to your life, your workplace, your social scene, your little bit of this great big world, and cause contrary motion. Sometimes a little rattling is fun, exciting, purposeful for growth, but I am not talking of those people. I am speaking of those who destroy the peace, the space, the situation. They come in and bit by bit break down the enjoyment of the moment. They turn people against each other. They distract you and others from the issues they are causing. They are truly manipulators of any situation. They try, and usually succeed, to disrupt the flow the natural motion and create contrary motion.

When things seem to be in transition that is when they arrive. It is like they know when they can cause chaos, and then they attack. I have dealt with those kinds, we all do, right? Well sometimes you have to rattle back. You can’t let them take over. Once you have spotted their evil plan you must put them asunder. They must not gain control. They are like weeds; it will get completely out of control if you let it go that far. Tend your garden. Plant goodness and you will reap a bounty of fragrances, beautiful colors and pure delight. But they will try to break down your flow with contrary motion.

If you find yourself, on the other side of this battle, you are causing the contrary motion. Stop! Reevaluate your purpose, your situation, and your motives. Are you trying to fit yourself into the wrong moment, the wrong space, the wrong wrong, don’t! You will only find the misery you will cause for others in yourself. Turn away, find another way, take time to play, enjoy the flowers of May, and surely do not delay.

Ok so my Birthday (yesterday) marked the 25th anniversary of the "Twinkie". So here is a little information on that sponge cake delight.

52,000 Twinkies can be filled with creme in one hour at a Twinkie bakery. It takes 10 minutes to bake a Twinkie. Twinkies got their name from a St. Louis billboard advertisement for the Twinkle Toe shoe. The Twinkie was chosen to be included in the White House millennium time capsule, representing "an object of enduring American symbolism." More than 1½ million hens are needed to lay the 160 million Grade A large eggs used to make Twinkies each year. Hostess bakeries can produce up to 1,000 Twinkies in a minute. 500 million Twinkies are baked each year. If you laid one billion Twinkies end to end, they would circle the Earth at the Equator twice, with enough left over to go from LA to New York three abreast. Chicago is the city that consumes more Twinkies per capita than any other city in the United States followed by Los Angeles. Super hero Superman celebrated his 50th birthday with a Twinkie birthday cake. It takes 45 seconds for a Twinkie to explode in the microwave. Twinkies have a shelf life of 14 days. Twinkies filling switched from banana to vanilla during World War II. It takes 39,672 miles of cellophane wrapping to cover Twinkies each year. Two students at Rice University conducted the "T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project," a series of "scientific tests" on Twinkies. The tests included the "Rapid Oxidation Test," the "Gravitational Response Test" as well as the "Turing Test."

Ok here is something interesting, "deep fried twinkies" http://www.sptimes.com/2002/06/26/Taste/The_Twinkie_transform.shtml

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Anyway, buy a freaking twinkie you know you want to, who can resist. Life is a lot like a twinkie. So many of us hold are sweetness inside, sheltering it from the rest of the world. The world finds a chance to... to take a bite, changing us, exposing our vulnerability, showing our transparent inner self to... to the world. Knowing that we are probably only a passing fancy, one of immediate satisfaction. Twinkies are moments. Each is a short commitment, quick satisfaction, a delightful sugar high. But all things must and do come to an end. And you will finish the twinkie, everyone does. You may eat it in sections. You may lick out the sweet innocencee of its center. You may dive in and enjoy all its riches from end to end. But you will finish it all. You will take your moment, your chance, your pleasure, your delight. Enjoy your days, moment to moment, like a twinkie excursion. Remember the tastes, remember the feel, and remember the moments. Life is rich with moments, how ever you choose to devour its sensations.

Just a thought on this purely American, pre-packaged, fully manufactured, taste sensation. Wanna Twinkie? Enjoy each moment in your life! There will never be another like it!

So I am having one of those weeks were you keep just trying to move forward but everything around you seems to be either out-of-sync or just plain chaos. I can blame it on the fact that I am in "tech week". For those of you not in the theatre community, tech week is the week into opening night where all the technical parts of the show are revealed for better or worse -- costumes, set, lights, sound, new props, things you never thought you were going to use or see or wear. They appear on this week, and you are to "make it happen", "make it work", "find a way", etc.

But the things that have happened this week are not all show related so that would be just an excuse to play the game of blame in that direction. So I guess it is just a "Wednesday Some uppens". Some of this and some of that, and that is what's up. Well happy Wednesday. Oh and btw it is my birthday. Things are gonna get grand, right?

MaestroTimothy

Timothy has been performer & director with the Storybook Theatre Company for the last five seasons. Beginning its 25th season,Storybook Theatre is the oldest children's theatre company in Central Florida. As the educational arm of the Sands Theater Center in DeLand, they incorporate youth theater, school tours, summer drama camps, and theater education for all ages. Storybook educators design and conduct creative drama projects to meet specific needs such as oral language development, abuse recognition programs, and the development of social skill, - often in partnership with area schools, community resource agencies, and arts organizations.  

For the 2005-2006 Season, they will be presenting a debut tour of his new play Edgar Allan Poe on a nine month tour of Florida schools.  He is also Musical Directing The Magical Pinata also touring for nine months to Elementary schools throughout five Florida counties. 

Storybook Theatre is the oldest children's theatre company in Central Florida - they are the educational arm of the Sands Theater Centerin DeLand. The 2004-2005 season marked his 14th production with the aclaimed theatre company and his roles have included "Uncle Ralph and "Pablo Piccasso" in Noonie's Masterpiece in Purple, "Actor 1" in Aesop’s Fables (Tour Feb – May 2005), Composer & "Henri" / "Tweedle-Dum" in The Frog Prince (Tour Sept 2004 – May 2005), Director / Music Director of Winnie The Pooh, the Musical Comedy (June 2004), "Devon” inDevon’s Hurt (Tour Feb – Apr. 2004), “Demon” & Foley Musician in Ama and the White Crane (October 2003), “The Magical Fish” in The Fisherman & His Wife (Tour Sept – Nov. 2003), The Prince, “Steve” in The Princess and the Pea (Tour Feb – Apr. 2003), Musical Director of The Secret Garden, musical (December 2002), “Baltus Van Tassell” in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (October 2001), Musical Director of Guys & Dolls, Jr. (June 2001), “Feste” in Twelfth Night (Tour April 2001) and "Rumplestiltskin" in Rumplestiltskin (Tour Feb – Apr. 2001)