Words from Pep Tony Awards

Words from Pep

Tony Awards

At the end of the day our sun kisses earth’s horizon introducing the night like a father tucking in his tired children. From east to west the nocturnal canopy is being drawn across the planet. It is time to review life and ponder the most recent events before they slip into history. . . . . . This blanket of shadow and darkness, being pulled up around our chins, calls us into the dreamtime. As it does, it also stirs others to arise. . . . . . With nose twitching, eyes dilated, searching, the badger exits her cavern, her grunts, growls and constant internal complaining inform her audience of her mood. Fox, frog and firefly, raccoon, rabbit, skunk and opossum, wolf, deer, mink, flying squirrel, beaver, bear – the total sum of their irritability fails to match up, even though they too work the night shift. Through the darkness, which matches her mood, like a miniature organic tank armed to the teeth, she rambles sniffing for “breakfast”. Ahh, a worm here, a grub there, some roots and grass, maybe a turtle egg or snake for desert. True to her kind she’s ADHD. She pries open a rotting log then dashes to ram her nose into a gopher hole and with three inch claws sends the earth flying behind her while the local resident exits the back door to safety. Nothing goes uninvestigated as she carries out the performance of her gifts and callings the Great Mystery instilled in her genes. . . . . . All our relations, from badger to shrew, bear to raven, fulfill their duties, perform as their script as written. The stage is always alive with drama, comedy, a musical and depending on perspective, tragedy. In heaven and on earth, under earth and in the sea the aria never ceases. It is theater-in-the-round as the curtain of light and night circles our planet. . . . . . There are characters on stage who seem to have forgotten their part, dashing here and there trying desperately to remember their lines, knocking down the set, singing off key, disrupting the harmony, demanding center stage, forgetting they are part of the whole. One has to wonder if they may bring the entire production to a halt. . . . . . As rays appear in the east, the nocturnal curtain is slowly lifted. Badger yawns and heads back to her cavern. Having played her role to perfection our potential Tony nominee exits stage left.
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