Alston

Shed sorting this morning then a walk to Acorn Bank again before heading up to Alston to see James Rowland’s latest play …
https://highlightsnorth.co.uk/event/james-rowland-dies-at-the-end-of-the-show/
He is a remarkable tour de force … this is the second performance of his that I’ve seen and thanks again to Arachne for bringing him to my attention and is better able to describe his spellbinding gift for storytelling … https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2631607277244649465

Here’s his current tour schedule … https://jamesrowlandtouring.com/
Like he said, when he thanked everyone for coming to see the show …’If I wasn’t here someone else would be. If you aren’t here, none of this would happen … so I thank you all for coming on this very wet and windy evening’ … and that felt like the message of the play … showing up in the performance of our lives … but, as he suggested, that may not have been the message heard by others in the audience who may have heard or felt a myriad of other things at this same point in time. It reminded me (again … that’s twice in a week) of one of my favourite poems, Wallace Stevens’s ‘Metaphors of a Magnifico’ … https://poets.org/poem/metaphors-magnifico