What a moon above this night. As extra summer continues. I went for a long meadow walk. Charlie came along and we walked in the sun past all the sunflowers and ferns going brown. The meadow has been mowed, so we could walk over the short tufts of grass. Leaves beginning to turn. Equinox coming soon. I went to poetry with my poem about a meadow in Chappaquiddick, a revision, and it was well received, and I got helpful feedback. I picked Wave up from school, which was a big treat in the middle of my day. Brought our bathing suits and drove straight to Farm Pond. The sun dips behind the trees in the mid-afternoon and throws a shadow on the beach. Still, there was direct sun on the pond and we eagerly swam, alligator chased each other. Then, suddenly, the sun dimmed and we got a chill and then we had a bit of a crisis to get him warmed up. We raced each other to the car and I made sure to let him win. Home with his mother who had finished her work he was warm soon enough. Tonight, I ran my IWWG Play Lab Showcase II. Really powerful scripts and strong acting and there were technical glitches, but in a way, those imperfections in the process, I think, bring surprise and magic. Two of my actors were from California and two from here, and one of them right in my very own house, downstairs. How lucky am I. A week from now I will have a reading of my new play with Franci and my friend Liz Rose who asked me for a play that features two women, and so I am doing it. Which is also a kind of magic––the way our years of working together in Playwright’s Platform, how she acted in so many of my plays, and so I could write this role, the grandmother role, with her in mind performing it. So, I am eager to see what happens when she reads it for the first time.