Saturday, November 30, 2024
Giving up the pamphlet
Spent all week musing about writing a post that says, basically: Quaker printer wanted. Someone who will take over the actual printing of the Maurine Pyle pamphlet, since I am somewhat suspended in quicksand over it.
For some reason, I couldn't bring myself to write it. I've become a little shy of all things Facebook, since I occasionally get reprimanded for facebook promotional posts, but that's not it. In the bitter cold, windy, bleak weather here, I just didn't want to start up with anyone.
So if that second one is the reason, I should have that post out tomorrow, or as soon as the weather breaks. Often mulling it over in a place like this is enough for me to get my things going.
I won't be giving it up entirely. I'll supervise the care of the document, in whatever form it's in, and work with any new printer until we have something we like. It shouldn't be as complicated as it has been. It's mostly complicated by the fact that I am not a printer, and, I have way too many other things to do.
Stay posted.
For some reason, I couldn't bring myself to write it. I've become a little shy of all things Facebook, since I occasionally get reprimanded for facebook promotional posts, but that's not it. In the bitter cold, windy, bleak weather here, I just didn't want to start up with anyone.
So if that second one is the reason, I should have that post out tomorrow, or as soon as the weather breaks. Often mulling it over in a place like this is enough for me to get my things going.
I won't be giving it up entirely. I'll supervise the care of the document, in whatever form it's in, and work with any new printer until we have something we like. It shouldn't be as complicated as it has been. It's mostly complicated by the fact that I am not a printer, and, I have way too many other things to do.
Stay posted.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Quaker play ideas
As readers of this blog, you know I write Quaker plays. I should say that as time goes by I am more aware of my shortcomings as a playwrite, but still conscious of my role as one of the only Quaker playwrites in the generation.
So, I'm thinking of yet another volume and using this post to explore possibilities of things I could write about. There are a few left over from last time that never were realized; I'll try to put them here too.
Thomas Paine - (biography here) - an interesting guy, father was a Quaker - found himself in the middle of the Revolution and wrote accordingly.
Wetherill brothers - these guys were part of a Colorado ranching family, and stumbled on Anasazi ruins; they had to decide what to do with them, and whether it was ethical to take them to a museum or sell them. Of course the people around them worried much less about ethics. Somewhere in there is a Quaker play on a topic that is very interesting to me.
Here are some from before:
Quakers in the World: Interaction with Tsarist Russia
Elizabeth Vining & the Crown Prince Akihito
Mary Fisher - (not to be confused with the AIDS activist) - wikipedia article
Josh Humphries - a modern character, died recently, had trouble with his Virginia meeting. I have friends who are bold, honest, truthful, and assertive - and sometimes don't get along well with their Quaker meetings. It's not always clear who's at fault when they fall out. The reference for this is somewhere in Chuck Fager's blog; I will have to search for it. I knew him only casually.
More? write me.
Thomas Paine - (biography here) - an interesting guy, father was a Quaker - found himself in the middle of the Revolution and wrote accordingly.
Wetherill brothers - these guys were part of a Colorado ranching family, and stumbled on Anasazi ruins; they had to decide what to do with them, and whether it was ethical to take them to a museum or sell them. Of course the people around them worried much less about ethics. Somewhere in there is a Quaker play on a topic that is very interesting to me.
Here are some from before:
Quakers in the World: Interaction with Tsarist Russia
Elizabeth Vining & the Crown Prince Akihito
Mary Fisher - (not to be confused with the AIDS activist) - wikipedia article
Josh Humphries - a modern character, died recently, had trouble with his Virginia meeting. I have friends who are bold, honest, truthful, and assertive - and sometimes don't get along well with their Quaker meetings. It's not always clear who's at fault when they fall out. The reference for this is somewhere in Chuck Fager's blog; I will have to search for it. I knew him only casually.
More? write me.
