Three Beautiful Things 02/01/07: Dressing Room, Applause, David

1. The smells of hair spray, hair gel, hair color spray, foundation, make-up, hair dryer heat, soap, cold cream, liquid eyeliner all combine to make the atmosphere of the dressing room a memorable sensory joy.
2. The small audience who viewed our preview performance of *Othello* tonight raised such a thunder of appreciative applause, it sounded like ninety of them were there instead of about nineteen.
3. I took a letter of recommendation for Angel to the U of O this afternoon and by accident parked in front of a former student's house. David and I talked for a few minutes and he seemed deeply happy to watch his children play in the front yard, enjoying the sunshine.