I leave VCCA Sunday morning (weather permitting), hitching a ride back to NYC with my friend, the insanely talented writer, Jen V.
Here’s what I had hoped to get done:
“I plan on cutting the Robert Darden footage Wolfgang shot in Chicago into the existing 27-minute sample Cabot edited … If I come back to New York City with a 35-minute sample that features all of A Life’s Work’s subjects, I’ll be extremely happy.” (Read the full post.)
Well?
Pretty much accomplished what I set out to accomplish. I will need another set of eyes to look at what I edited, but overall, I’m happy with what I cut. My nature is to never be satisfied, and I feel like I could have done more, but I’m in a forgiving mood, so I’ll accept a little self-patting on the back.
And I made some new friends, looked at some great art, read some great poetry and prose, played music with some very fine musicians, had some nice walks on the trails, ate wonderful food, and suffered humiliating loss after humiliating loss at the ping pong table. So it goes.
Soon, it will be time for the difficult goodbyes and re-entry into the real world. It will be a short stint there this time, as I’m off to the MacDowell Colony February 5. A Life’s Work never ends.