Tomorrow we fly to Denver to see our son Scott. He’s graduating from the National Theatre Conservatory with a Masters in Acting. Tomorrow night we’ll see him playing the role of Tartuffe and the next night, Hamlet. Saturday evening is graduation.
I’ve been thinking about Scott a great deal today and how excited I am to cheer his performances and to celebrate his master’s degree. Throughout the day I had flashbacks to Scott growing up, being in marching band and performing in high school musicals. Listening to him share his latest song written on guitar and dedicated to a girl who never appreciated him. I remembered him hanging out in the control room of recording studios and asking me questions on film set locations. Singing with him in Norway and being directed by him in an adaptation he wrote of THE FORGOTTEN CAROLS. I recalled co-writing the songs for the movie THE BEST TWO YEARS and watching him play Ham in my musical THE ARK at the Village Theatre in Issaquah, WA. Thought about all the late night talks about the eternal verities and the dissecting of movies on the drive home from the theatres.
Basically, my M2B:) moment today was being grateful for all the rare and meaningful moments we’ve shared in this journey called life, and how excited I feel at the memories we’ll be making this weekend.
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Wow. Good for Scott. And yes, so thankful for all those kinds of moments with my own children. I’m thinking bout us, sitting up in heaven, waiting to be born, thinking we know all about what it will be like. But who woulda known? CONGRATS, Scott!!!
Congrats to Scott. I remember the first time I met him when he came with you to “help” with a Forgotten Carols fireside. He was quite young but you had him sing a song with you and it was delightfully humorous and fun. You have every right to be very proud and excited!
Congratulations to you Lynne and Scott. What an honor. I love watching him on the DVD of the forgotten carols. I wish you and that whole cast could do it again live. What a night that would be the whole family all together again. Have a safe trip. Give us more details about your wonderful weekend your going to have. High 5 Scott.
Oh how exciting! Congratuations to Scott from us. Graduating is such a milestone, and represents so much work. Yay!
WOW!!! How excited you must be. When I read that Scott was getting a degree in acting it made me think of all my fun times in high school and Junior College when I was in theater. I was going to go all the way to Hollywood. I loved doing musicals especially. I never realized at the time that one could actually get a degree in just acting. I thought one had to get a degree and teach or something of that nature. My dreams sort of peetered out when I realized that I needed to make a living and acting did not pay too much. Congratulations to Scott. It sounds wonderful!!!!!
Congratulations to Scott and to you both as parents. It’s a great feeling when our children achieve thier dreams.
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! Yea Scott!
I know Michael is coming back from his weekend celebrating Scott, but I couldn’t wait to share my joyful moment of the day. So for those of you reading comments this is for you:
I’m taking a class on Marriage and Family Relations and today’s lesson had some wonderful quotes on joy. But I wanted to share this one: “Some people are like rocks thrown into a sea of problems. They are drowned by them. Be a cork. When submerged in a problem, fight to be free to bob up and serve again with happiness.”-Elder Richard G. Scott
This month I will be a cork! I hope you will too. Have a happy day!
I’m a little late to the ball game but wanted to say Congratulations as well and love the happy memories and time spent together moments that you posted. I love being a parent!!
Lori – I think I’m a cork with some petrified wood thrown in. I drown for a while, but eventually, hope and faith and – really – finally, I just get tired of being defeated. Then I not only float to the top, but tend to shoot up like a cork out of a bottle. It’s just truly difficult when the pebbles are sometimes so many and so persistent. Mike’s mechanism for floating – being determined to deliberately find the buoyant places in the heavy water? It’s very real and very productive. Once, when I was not floating to the top in college, I realized that everywhere I walked between class, I was looking down at my feet. Suddenly, all I did was raise my eyes to the mountains, and I could feel the chemistry in my brain change. Just like that.