The There There Letter: Drive-in Movies, Digital Dates, and Divagating
Three things from DAH.
DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. I write, organize, plan, produce, manage, direct, act, sing, promote, and make change (not the coin kind).
First up this week, Drive-in Movies …
It's remarkable how old can become new in crisis situations. It really hadn't occurred to me that one kind of movie theater could still make some sense in this time of social-distancing. In interviews with The Los Angeles Times, "owners of drive-ins in California, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri said that they remain open, with several reporting increases in business in recent days. Operators said they were mindful of restrictions on large gatherings and would close if a mandate required them to do so."
LATimes has a paywall, so, my apologies if you're already beyond your "free page view" limit:
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-18/drive-in-movie-theaters-coronavirus
Second up this week, Digital Dates …
If we are self-isolating and sheltering-in-place in aid of social distancing (what a joy of new familiar terms!) then we are also likely looking for ways to stay social, and not just for business. My group of friends used to meet up weekly for dinner. That's not OK now. So we're trying free video chat and conferencing apps. For digital dates together. Zoom is the app du jour, but there are many options. They are likely to stress our home digital use (with moms, dads, and kids all wi-fi-ing all day long), but it's nice to see those familiar faces and raise a toast to framily.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2020/03/19/microsoft-teams-skype-zoom-and-even-google-duo-are-where-you-live-now/
Third up this week, Divagating …
No, not busting in on a diva party, or a group of divas getting in trouble (ala Watergate). Divagate -- from the Latin divagatus and divagari … di means "apart," vagari means "to wander." Like taking another path, or, in my case, wandering to reinvent one's self. We all self-mythologize. In my case, I tend to think of myself as a friendly, conservative, anxious, stick-in-the-mud. Sometimes it takes an outside look in to see the truth. An old friend, asking me (via email -- self-isolating) after asking what I'd been up to, wrote: "You have certainly reinvented yourself many times over in the past." That's the opposite of the way I think about myself, but a critical look at personal history suggests that my friend is correct. So, a reminder as we self-focus while sheltering-in-place: Your mind may poison your self-image. Good friends can be the antidote.
That's all for this week.
From Mary Oliver's poem "Sometimes" …
DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. I write, organize, plan, produce, manage, direct, act, sing, promote, and make change (not the coin kind).
First up this week, Drive-in Movies …
It's remarkable how old can become new in crisis situations. It really hadn't occurred to me that one kind of movie theater could still make some sense in this time of social-distancing. In interviews with The Los Angeles Times, "owners of drive-ins in California, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri said that they remain open, with several reporting increases in business in recent days. Operators said they were mindful of restrictions on large gatherings and would close if a mandate required them to do so."
LATimes has a paywall, so, my apologies if you're already beyond your "free page view" limit:
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-18/drive-in-movie-theaters-coronavirus
Second up this week, Digital Dates …
If we are self-isolating and sheltering-in-place in aid of social distancing (what a joy of new familiar terms!) then we are also likely looking for ways to stay social, and not just for business. My group of friends used to meet up weekly for dinner. That's not OK now. So we're trying free video chat and conferencing apps. For digital dates together. Zoom is the app du jour, but there are many options. They are likely to stress our home digital use (with moms, dads, and kids all wi-fi-ing all day long), but it's nice to see those familiar faces and raise a toast to framily.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2020/03/19/microsoft-teams-skype-zoom-and-even-google-duo-are-where-you-live-now/
Third up this week, Divagating …
No, not busting in on a diva party, or a group of divas getting in trouble (ala Watergate). Divagate -- from the Latin divagatus and divagari … di means "apart," vagari means "to wander." Like taking another path, or, in my case, wandering to reinvent one's self. We all self-mythologize. In my case, I tend to think of myself as a friendly, conservative, anxious, stick-in-the-mud. Sometimes it takes an outside look in to see the truth. An old friend, asking me (via email -- self-isolating) after asking what I'd been up to, wrote: "You have certainly reinvented yourself many times over in the past." That's the opposite of the way I think about myself, but a critical look at personal history suggests that my friend is correct. So, a reminder as we self-focus while sheltering-in-place: Your mind may poison your self-image. Good friends can be the antidote.
That's all for this week.
From Mary Oliver's poem "Sometimes" …
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
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