It was raining.  Ugly raining, not charming Seattle raining.  As I was walking down the hill to Orion I had visions of getting one kid hooked, one homeless youth really responding to what we were offering, and that kid’s response would become contagious, or they would set the tone for everyone else responding to us.  [...]

We came. We saw. We made art. We helped other people make art. We learned stuff. We became one with humility. We both exceeded, and fell short of expectations. We thought on our feet and persevered. We were asked to return.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Things didn’t go as planned. Attendance was less than expected, [...]

Last night we had volunteer orientation for the workshop at Orion and it went very well.  We did a dry run of the short ‘pitches’ that we will be doing for each of our four art forms, theater, writing, visual art, and juggling, and met with our very capable friends who are helping out.  We [...]