✧Solo date day trip: digicam diaries✧
Stocked with some of @ghulschlampe ‘s CDs because I have repeat listened to my CD collection too many times to last a roadtrip, I drove an hour and some change to eat a vegan donut and drink an iced matcha with banana milk.
And
To roam vintage stores until I stumbled upon a dress I couldn’t pass up (invite me to your wedding or something formal so I have reason to wear this).
And
To peruse a farmers market and bring home pretty flowers to the apartment.
I will continue seeking joy in little ways like this til further notice,
And
I hope you will too!!!!! ( ˘ ³˘)
Another spring began with me finding my way back to this special, special place. Joseph’s first time at the animal sanctuary and we saw so many sweet beings… including my twin, Sunny :)
Eat plants (please)
This is for all my friends (in West Virginia)
Digicam diaries: my first outdoor climbing trip!!! :D
This was also my rope’s first time outside! Climbing outside is so! hard! Sent one route on lead, one on top, and flashed one on top. Many attempts. Many aggravation. Many smile. Many goodness. Stoked to work to get better on real rock instead of just thriving on colorful plastic. This silly hobby has brought so much to my life. Grateful for friends old and new. I want to climb rocks forever. And get really sweaty. And share PB&Js lady & the tramp style. And look at the stars. And identify bird calls. And drive with the windows down. luv u
29!!! Pretty, intelligent, talented. I look forward to more years of our self proclaimed duo book club, you playing the guitar for me in an artist way (not a performative male way), chef Joseph vegan dinners, and lots of good theatre. I love you and I’d like to keep choosing you every day ✧ﾟ~ ✧ﾟ
I remember when The SpongeBob Musical came out. I was in New York in 2018 during its Broadway run. I was so quick to pretentiously claim that I “didn’t care for commercial theatre,” and I’d refuse to see the show. Fast forward 8 years, and I’d be playing Perch Perkins and coming to love this musical more than I’d ever imagine. Spoiler: it’s far greater than the simple nostalgia bait that I had formerly wanted to write it off to be. Easily one of my favorite projects. I’m grateful to the entire team, to everyone who came to Bikini Bottom with us, and especially to our incomparable director, EVT. Eric is a gift beyond measure. Tomorrow we say goodbye to diva Perch. Remaining tickets available at the box office or online at onstage.wayne.edu 🧽
Director: Eric Van Tielen
Music Director: Ryan Buyers
Choreographer: Aaron Smith
Scenic Design: Abby Wicker
Costume Design: Erin Routh-Smith
Lighting Design: Matt Taylor
Sound Design: Shane Van Abel
Props Designer: Valerie Kulesh
Production Stage Manager: Harmoni Thompson
📸: Chuk Nowak
A collection of loved ones who came to see SpongeBob opening weekend :) We have shows through the week and this coming weekend, come see us 🧽 onstage.wayne.edu
In December 2023 a cast list was released, naming Madi Burt as Jane. This would begin the process of Drowning Ophelia, a precious little one act that explores trauma, how we carry it, and who has the capacity to cause it; written by Rachel Luann Strayer. Rachel would then travel to Detroit to see our production, and I would get to meet the human who created the world I had taken temporary residence in.
Rachel would then begin drafting a companion piece, Laertes Dies Too, and want to hear my voice on it. Thus began Zoom table readings in November 2024, an irl @container_globe reading, all leading me to Pennsylvania to read this play in progress to a room yet again! It’s a joy and a privilege to continue to have the opportunity to speak Rachel’s words. Jane will continue to be a part of me, hopefully forever and ever.
See also; I moved, I saw one of my incredible mentors in a show, I went to Hershey whilst in PA, and I’ve been working on a show. SpongeBob opens THIS FRIDAY. BUY TICKETS! I miss climbing. I love you, see you next time
Last night I ugly cried through a hot vinyasa class (cw: post class cry face on last slide)
My Maddy May taught her last class in Michigan today. And (honestly, truly) everyone clapped. The most packed class I’ve ever experienced and everyone in that room was there to bask in her energy one last time. What beautiful living proof of the impact you make on others! We really don’t acknowledge how much we matter to the community around us. I remember when she first started teaching, and now she’s leading a room of 30~ people who are just as desperate to send her off and wish her well on her next chapter as I am.
Years of growing, flowing, and feeling together. And more years to come! I just won’t get to hold your hand as often. No one prepares you for the goodness and grief of your loved one’s paths taking them away from you. How can you both be so excited and happy for someone, whilst also being so painfully sad? It’s heavy. It’s joyous. It’s everything at once.
To the beach where you belong! I’m so proud of you, Maddy May. I love you. Forever. Maddy and Madi will always be tethered, I think it’s in the name. We’ll always be under the same sky; I’ll see you in every full moon, I’ll hear your voice in the wind that moves the trees, and I’ll feel your warmth in every oatmilk matcha. You are so deserving! Your new community will be so lucky to have your light in their lives. I miss you already. If you read my sappy caption will all of you tell everyone in your life that you love them more often? Hold them closer please. For me. 🦋
Goodbye winter break. You were gorgeous to me. Final week highlights: sleeping in, crafting and vision boarding, Megan and I starting our synchronized skating training, boyfriend getting his top rope certification, cuddling up in my bed to play Switch with Lily. So much climbing. Chalk on my clothes all the time. With each passing day I get closer to living my life more presently. More whimsy! More physical media! More quality time!
Soup’s on. I won’t fill up on bread. I’m going to keep the music playing. My heart is full. Life’s gonna get harder for awhile. I don’t know how I’m gonna keep paying these obscene tuition costs. Just a little more struggle for this rambunctious cowboy. There will always be goodness alongside it all. See you for the next digicam installment <3
