Stargirl

"I’ve always loved the idea that Iceland has officially sanctioned enchanted places. I think that’s pretty cool. Who’s to say what’s real and what’s not?

"Sometimes I think that our senses are as much blinders as they are revealers,and I like to think that just beyond the edge of what we can see, and where we can reach, are other things. And it is in trying to get in touch with those other things that one writes in a way that we come to call poetry, or enchanting, or whatever, but that’s all it is. For me it probably comes into play more with Stargirl than with any other story, because Stargirl… for the most part, is not identified by others, except by me, as a story about a childhood recollected. Stargirl is, in my view, about someone who is perhaps a throwback to the way we were, or maybe, someone who is one half-step ahead of the rest of us, and someone to whom the rest of us, hopefully, someday, will catch up.”
~ Jerry Spinelli, in an interview with Mary Cappello, City Center Philadelphia, April 15, 2007

So, for all the people to whom I have not bragged about my sister, Maddie is a lighting intern at the Seattle Children's theatre this summer. A lighting designer came up with the sets, but Maddie hanged them. And she's the light board operator for several of the children's shows. I finally went to one last night, Stargirl. It's a play based on a book by Jerry Spinelli. He also wrote Maniac Magee, a book that I loved when I was younger. Everyone should read it; the play itself was adorable. Poignant and very sweet, albeit bittersweet at times. That was the whole point. The sequel's coming out in two days or something, Love, Stargirl. I want to read both now. This is what I get for loving young adult fiction.

In other news, the cold that has plagued me for four solid weeks is still showing no signs of going away. It gets pretty bad at night, so I plan to go to the doctor and see what's up. I can't afford to have such sudden bouts of low energy- I need to get better!