These Are My JOTtings...

The Play, Our Town, Opens Tonight!

The play of plays will start tonight!
Excitement's in the air!
We've practiced and our parts are right!
We hope to see you there!

The time on set is years ago,
when days were simpler then.
We watch the lives of people grow.
Important thoughts begin.

Do folks yet know important point
of life as daily live?
Do others with our time anoint?
Do full attention give?

We know we have to get our rest
to eat, to work, to play.
We know we take in school a test
and teachers we obey.

We hope to make a living and
to have a family.
I hope someone will love this man
and spend her life with me.

How glad I'm for the thirty years
that this has truly been!
Yet, characters face joy and fears
as some may never win.

In many ways this tragedy
can teach us how to hope.
Remember first that you and me
need focus here to cope.

If we do live our daily lives
in thoughts that are the best,
Then joy we'll know as life survives
through ev'ry loss or test.

Our mem'ries will be colored bright,
since lived we face to face.
Our Joys will brighten man'ya night,
though cups of grief have place.

The victory of life we see
is truly look and love
That when we from our bodies flee
we're found in Land Above.

by Jay O'Toole
on April 6th, 2017

From Annie, the Musical,
which is the play
Jade & I
were in five years ago this month.
It was Jade's first play.
Jade is not in this picture,
but I wish she could have been.