Ordinary Days
Messy and Clunky
And with So Many things needing to be worked out
Who can tell
Where we are heading or What we would like or When it will all be Fixed??
In the final Act of THORNTON WILDER’s OUR TOWN, Emily asks, ”Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it every, every minute?” (more…)
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Ordinary Days
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 2, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/11/02/ordinary-days/
Subtle Miracles
I am on the 3:54 Train
On my way to MOM’s.
I swept on as the doors closed behind me, like a scene from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
And I was able to pick up her favorite Bread,
stopping for a hurried moment of my 120-second jaunt
between the Subway Shuttle and Track 105. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on October 22, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/10/22/subtle-miracles/
37 Minutes
Arrived at Penn Station 7:42 pm
Rushing down 33rd Street toward the subway,
a Man says to me, “Excuse me, Sir, May I ask you a Question?”
Enough of a New Yorker to know that a Question means a request for Money, I apologize and say I am in too much of a Hurry.
He calls after me, “Would you buy me something to eat?”
I keep walking.
After twenty yards or so, I can continue no further.
I rush back. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on October 13, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/10/13/37-minutes/
ASSURANCE
Sitting at the Kitchen Table
With a pile of Bills to pay
sigh
Never been much of a Left Brain somebody
And Somehow this process leaves me feeling less of a Whole Person
After thirty-five years in Show Business
and a Lifetime in America at the End of Capitalism
One would think I’d be used to it by now. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on October 4, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/10/04/assurance/
Leaves are Falling
Leaves are Turning
Stars are Burning in the Autumn Sky
Stars that have been there for Billions of Years
But not Forever
Stars that will be there long after we’re gone
But not Forever
The Summer has drawn its final breath
Autumn has begun. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 27, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/09/27/leaves-are-falling/
Water Slide
Did you ever go to a Water Park?
I went to a few when I was a kid — not with regularity and I couldn’t tell you where
But I remember Water Slides
Climbing seemingly endless staircases to the top
Being given a mat of some kind
And sitting on it at the top of the Slide.
Ready to take off
I would hold on to the slight railing along my section of the slide,
Making My Way Down in Stops and Starts
Afraid to Let Go Completely
(more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 19, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/09/19/water-slide/
Shadow Dance
My MOM is 87.
I cook often for her
Working in her kitchen preparing a meal
with an 87 year old woman moving about in a childlike way,
placing ingredients where they don’t belong,
displacing items from where I need them to be,
trying to help, but causing me to have to do the acrobatics of a whirling dervish
just to get the meal completed and on the table.
Where’s the garlic? I just had it!
Don’t throw away that pasta water. I… needed that.
Please don’t put the cheese back in the fridge, I…
But I have noticed, over time, that there are actually four of us in this tiny kitchen: (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 10, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/09/10/shadow-dance/
Growing Up Rich
Did you grow up Rich?
I did.
I see the throngs headed toward Penn Station
from their Manhattan Dwellings every Friday…
Struggling with bags and juggling train schedules,
Paying Fares on the LIRR or NEW JERSEY TRANSIT,
and on taxis and ferries
Just to get out to some tiny house they own
so that they can enjoy a sliver of sunshine.
When I was a Kid, My Father gave us the Ocean
And the Sky.
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 3, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/09/03/growing-up-rich/
August
Augustus Caesar…Looks to me LIke a Guy who knew how to Enjoy Life
Named to honor the first Roman Emperor (and grandnephew of JULIUS CAESAR), AUGUSTUS CAESAR (63 B.C. – A.D. 14)…
August is a Gift.
August is a time to do some of the things for which we never have time…
Not to Lament what’s going away
Nor to Panic about what is coming around again
“As soon as it hits Labor Day, I see Christmas!”
Yes. It is just about ninety Days until the first Day of Advent.
But Labor Day is in September.
Christmas is in December.
With a Full Week of this Glorious Gift remaining,
Let us Celebrate the Present Moment of August. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on August 23, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/08/23/august/
Community
Newtown High School, photographed by Producer, VAN DEAN
December 14th, 2012: When the Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut happened, I worked very hard to avoid any news about it — Then the week before Christmas, I was sitting with MOM when the report came on playing tapes of the 911 Call from the teacher protecting the children in the Coat Room. I wept ceaselessly for a very long time.
Three months ago, a Wonderful Director I know named MICHAEL UNGER offered me the privilege of working with him Casting two Musicals for the 12.14 Foundation.
(more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on August 15, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/08/15/community/
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