Timegoesby

It is so odd coming back here. A place I don't live any more, but will ever call home. I was hispie back then. It was lovely to see your post. It was unmistakably you, but with a lightness that speaks to your courage and grace through these years. I was always grateful to you for speaking the words I was afraid to. You're still doing it. I'm still grateful. xo

I wasn't sure I would sign up here, thought I would just read every now and again, but then I saw this thread and thought, "My people!" Brief widow/musicalsjunkie bio -- ywbb board member (hispie) late,2005, four months after my DH died (brain tumor, benign. yeah right) . He was 49. I didn't post much, but made friends and felt very attached. Still keep up via Facebook. Almost 10 years later, time goes by and I'm Still Here, which brings me to my musicals portion of this tome . . . I don't remember a time in my life without musicals playing in the background. I met my bff when we were 8 and I happened upon her dancing in her garage to Dites Moi. Our family always had season tickets to the Civic Light Opera, and when I was 14 the original touring production of Company came through. I became an obsessed Sondheim fan. 16,000 days later, I still am, so it's a joy to see the love here. There are so many memories bound up in musicals with my DH. The first time he asked me out--knowing nothing about me--it was to Bubbling Brown Sugar. He couldn't believe I'd already seen it. He was definitely a keeper. Too bad that wasn't to be. But we got married young and had 25 years together. I am ever grateful. It was marvelous to know you And it's never really through. Crazy business this, this life we live in- Can't complain about the time we're given- With so little to be sure of in this world, We had a moment! A marvelous moment! A beautiful time . . . . WIth So Little to Be Sure Of Anyone Can Whistle My Buffy knowledge is a major fail. However, to not completely hijack from the last post, I offer this from Josh Weedon: "I always want to sort of explode everything I'm looking at. I think I'm going to alienate the horror audience on a grand scale -- but one of the reasons why I love Stephen Sondheim more than any other writer is that every song he writes has a purpose. It's not just to entertain. It's usually a mediation on the kind of song that it is... as well as being brilliant." Carry on! (May 2 I see Fun Home on Broadway. Can't wait!)