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I wrote on my Facebook page today that I am in Bogota, Colombia “Checkin’ out some theaters”. Well, that’s about as good as I could have imagined for my life at one point.I remember Glen Rumsey (you may know her as Shasta Cola) describing how he knew it was time for him to leave the Merce Cunningham Company. They were performing in L’Opera de Paris Palais Garnier, one of the greatest venues any performer can aspire to play in, he was in his dressing room putting on his make up and he was miserable, totally miserable. As he sat there, staring at himself feeling so bad and wondering how this could be at such a pinnacle of success he knew it was time to move on.Late last night I wrote on my Facebook page that I was in Bogota Colombia “Checkin’ out some theaters”. I suppose I only did so to impress my friends, why else write anything there? But I guess that I’m not all that impressed with myself in the end. It’s just what I do? Am I miserable? Nope, not like Glen was, I have been like that in the past and I’m nowhere near that yet. But I am at that point where I’ve got to move into new challenges. I want to do things that do impress me.I’ve got to build some sets in China.I’m having some really stupid delays. I decided to find a graphic artist online. I found one whose work I like but prepress stuff have really stumped us.I also have taken on a lot of work that needed to get done. Pretty cool work, but work that doesn’t really impress me, even if the money has been better than I’ve usually gotten paid. I need to get this done.I’m sitting here with Maria Rita Stumpf in the lobby of the in the hotel in Bogota. We visited a theater today. I walked around the stage and pronounced it “OK” with two thumbs up. We’ve been traveling together for three days. We get along well but we’ve gotten to the point we haven’t much left to say to each other.We have a 6 hour overnight flight to New York and then I go right into meetings all day. I guess that’s the best thing just to keep me going. Then Jane and I are going to see the Donna Uchizono piece.

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