WITH REGRETS

Yesterday I wrote a script for a video interview the pastor wanted to use to introduce me when I speak (or fall on my face) this next Sunday. I don’t know if I slept wrong, got up on the wrong side of the bed or just ate something that messed me up — but I hated it.

Reminds me of when I was working with the Portrait Players and trying to write a script at the same time. I would bring the pages I had written to rehearsal, the cast would memorize them and the next rehearsal I would throw all or most of those out and give them new pages. When I saw the scenes in rehearsal they sucked. Of course that was not a phrase used in them olden days.

So where am I today? I would just as soon drop the whole video interview. Lets just go ahead and throw me to the wolves without further ado. But that is not likely going to happen. Let’s just go o the interview like 20 minutes. Maybe I should do it in shadows or with my voice altered.

Six from the home are on their Alaska cruise and will stop at Juneau for their first day back on land. All are new cruisers (like I have experience. I did make the Alaska Inland Passage cruise — once). The group is nervous. They were afraid it would be raining the whole trip. The night before I check the coming weather at all their stops and they were right. It’s raining. They went this week because it is the last week of the Alaska cruises for the season and therefore the most economical. I helped them get this discounted trip together. I hope they forgot that. If it is also foggy they are likely to see almost nothing. They are excited about the tour of Glacier Bay National Park. But if it is foggy and rainy, they may see nothing. I think I’ll hide when they return until I know if they had a good time.