by Natalie Ogbourne | May 31, 2017 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
While the rest of the world waited for February 2 and Punxsutawney Phil to declare just how many more weeks winter would hold on, I looked to February 1. That was the date I allowed myself to count the days until my kids would be done with school and...
by Natalie Ogbourne | May 7, 2017 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
There you are, on the couch with your kids, in the stands at the game, at the coffee shop with a friend. You’re sitting. You’re supporting. You’re socializing. But you haven’t stopped. You’ve pushed pause. Your body is still, at least enough to watch and cheer and...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Apr 9, 2017 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Yesterday I hurried into Walmart for a few things and emerged–much more slowly–pushing a cart. Right outside the door I caught the fragrance of something I’d seen but not stopped to appreciate on the way in: flowers for sale. It was the...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 12, 2017 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Encouraged by this post? Receive an audio file of another story from the stage:The Single Seat. Subscribe to the quarterly{ish} newsletter in sidebar. Every Monday during the winter, I drive into town. There, twenty young actors and a few directors gather to work. We...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 2, 2017 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
The bleak midwinter, Christina Rossetti called it. And while her poem is lovely, living with continual strings of short, cold, sunless days is not. I believe that there is a time for everything, even bleak days. And yet. It’s at such times when my practice of...
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by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 22, 2017 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Because it intersects with two subjects that fascinate and teach me, the rhythms of the seasons and Yellowstone, I bought a book, For Everything There is a Season: The Sequence of Events in the Grand Teton-Yellowstone Area. Through it, I see the general happening of...