Stratford, Prince Edward Island
Dare I say it? - one month.

It's pretty wild, after thinking of 20 June 2008 and marking 18 months, 12 months, even 6 months. To be down to one month is...well, let's not even think about that!

But things are pretty well full tilt over here. We started rehearsals with the cast 10 days ago and we're chugging along. Sometimes I think we're making amazing progress and sometimes I think it's all going too slow. Which probably means things are progressing at exactly the speed they're supposed to. I have been feeling pretty stressed out lately - I keep saying "I don't have time" for this, "I don't have time" for that. And what have I been preaching about all along? The power of imagination, right? Law of Attraction? Sure, Mike - keep saying you don't have enough time, and you won't! So I'm doing my best to correct my thinking. Things have been in pieces today, but I'm trying to just pay attention to the forward movement.

Today has been about the visuals, since the cast had the day off. Some of it's been cluttered by which computer to use, which program, blah blah blah. Still, even that's moved forward. The visuals are actually the thing I've been most stressed out about, simply because we decided to have so much of them!

And I have never paid so much attention to leaves in my life. Call me crazy, but my memories from my childhood paint a picture of leaves budding way earlier than this. I thought we'd be able to get some decent footage of nature in late March, early April...here we are heading up late May and we're only now starting to see the trees do their thing. Thank heaven for small mercies. Maybe by the weekend or early next week we'll finally get that footage. In the meantime, I've gone around and gotten as much footage as I could that doesn't involve leaves! Bluffs, ocean, water. It's getting there. It's all getting there.

I really want to be enjoying this ride more - it's the fruition of close to three years' worth of dreaming and working - but I'm finding it difficult. Still, every once in a while it hits me. The first time I heard one of our songs rehearsed at Kings Playhouse, it became especially apparent. But I guess I feel if I don't ride herd on all of this stuff, it won't get done in time. Which goes back to changing the way I've been thinking.

Anyway, one month from tonight, we're on. Our cast is on. And they're an amazing group, which at least puts my mind at ease about one thing!

Gotta get back to work. More video stuff to figure out. Come on, leaves - make it happen over here!