5 1/2 years in the making
Anyone who has done a home improvement project knows from experience that your actual completion date is always weeks, maybe months after your desired or planned for completion date. The reality time line wins out….it takes twice as long to do the work than you expected. In the creative world of the arts, the same is true. Reality is painful and discomforting…even Emily Dickinson would agree with that statement! Brought together through the death of our friend, Tim Vernon, Barbara Dana and I have become friends and creative colleagues. My blog of January 20, 2010 introduced our collaboration on an Emily Dickinson project. Barbara has written a book about Emily, “ A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson .” Beginning in the summer of 2006 we began discussing the possibility of working together on an Emily show based upon Barbara’s book and including song settings of Emily’s poetry. Upon completion of her book, Barbara began the task of writing a script for the show. The prem...