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		<title>Commitment Makes the Difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staggering out of the Brooklyn Academy of Music after seeing the Donmar Warehouse production of Creditors on Tuesday night, I was reminded what a difference committed, fearless artists can make. I dislike August Strindberg&#8217;s work, though I reluctantly acknowledge its seminal impact on the formation of modern theater. (I vastly prefer Chekhov and Ibsen, his fellow pioneers.) It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=94&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Glorious Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 19: It&#8217;s chilly today, but spring was at its most seductive last week, when Joe and I headed down to the Chelsea Garden Center in Red Hook to get some flowers for our newly sunny garden. (The only positive result of taking down a venerable but ailing red maple in our backyard last fall.) We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=90&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Action-Packed Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the Heights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But not the kind of action of interest to the young and single&#8230;I was up to my butt in culture, and spent all Saturday reconnecting with some friends from sleepaway camp I hadn&#8217;t seen since we were 13 years old! It&#8217;s strange how you look at people you knew when they (and you) were very young: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=85&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Snow, a New Kitten</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 18: We got 18 inches of snow in less than 24 hours, and before it all melted away, Joe and I took our snowshoes and trekked through Prospect Park. We hardly needed the snowshoes in most areas, as it was packed down by hordes of sledders and snowman-builders. But there were some deep patches, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=78&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Recreations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw Carmen recently&#8211;not, alas, with Elena Garanca, the sexy Slav who made a sensation at the premiere of this exceedingly intelligent new production directed by Richard Eyre. But Olga Borodina&#8211;the sexy Slav du jour about 15 years ago&#8211;remains a fine singer and a decent actress; physically she&#8217;s getting a bit matronly for the part, but this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=74&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movies, More Movies, Vikings and Opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 31-February 11, 2010: When I look back over my diary from the winter, there seems to be little in it besides comments on movies and other performances&#8211;plus one nasty family crisis that I have no intention of sharing online! For what it&#8217;s worth, what we&#8217;ve been watching&#8230;. Catch Me If You Can, still among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=71&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday (1/24), while Luca went to visit friends, Joe and I lunched at Grand Sichuan, our favorite Chinese restaurant&#8211; au zhou chicken and those mouth-frying beef filets in chili sauce&#8211;then walked over to the High Line to see what it looks like inthe winter. Those masses of wildflowers look quite dramatic as tall, bare stalks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=67&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It All Mean? Who the Hell Knows!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, January 19: I took a long walk with Luca down to the Promenade and back, talking about everything from the Spanish Civil War (his final Cycle 2 project) to the Massachusetts senate election (she lost tonight, God help us&#8211;more on that later). A paradox to be talking about brutal wars and depressing politics while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=65&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sad Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I wanted to go back over my diary entries from earlier this year and post them on my blog is that we had a traumatic experience that made me think about a lot of things that belong in the blog. But I have to go back a bit to have it make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=45&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Touch, continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending the morning cleaning the kitchen and living room, I treated myself to a visit to the Metropolitan Museum to see the exhibit of Bronzino drawings. One of the most appealing things about drawings is the sense you get of the artist&#8217;s hand; you&#8217;re much more aware that a human being made these images, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendysmithbrooklyn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12358770&amp;post=42&amp;subd=wendysmithbrooklyn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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