Close to Nowhere - Linda Jones


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Close to Nowhere
By Linda Jones

“Cats” & quilts

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

• This past Saturday, my daughter and I took Meredith, Remy and Grace to Northwest Community College drama department’s production of “Cats.”

We’d not been to any type of production or program at NWCC since Dana graduated from nursing school there.

My youngest granddaughter Remy about half the time thinks she is a cat. The other half of the time she’s pretending to be a cat. She is a cat magnet and loves them beyond reason.

“Cats” is not one of the Broadway musicals I thought I’d care anything about. But, the Grem loves cats. And this was an opportunity for her to see other people pretending to be cats.

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

I was way wrong! And, I was totally surprised that I knew about half the music. In fact, Barbra Streisand’s rendition of “Memories” is one of my all-time favorite songs.

The performer who sang “Memories” and played the part of Grizabella, the aging, once-glamorous cat, sang “Memories” beautifully. Several other “cats” sang choruses of the song and every single cat in the cast was very good.

As we arrived at the Fine Arts auditorium on the campus, several of the “cats” were on the balcony, meowing and pawing toward the gathering audience. The girls (and I) were very impressed!

The costumes were stunning, the actors were very good and the entire performance was just wonderful.

Grem is going around singing “Rum tum tom is a...” Not me --

Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
Look -- A new day has begun

• Response to Christine’s and the Big Star Bagger’s Relay for Life quilt has been very good. We are very appreciative. And, we still have more blocks, so “keep those cards and letters coming!”

Construction of the 120-block quilt is going quite well. I hope to have it all pieced and ready to show off at my quilt guild meeting on March 14. And Reba, who will be hand-quilting it, says she needs at least six weeks to hand quilt.

For the measly sum of $5, you can put a loved one’s name on this quilt -- in honor or in memory. That same measly sum gets your name in the hat for the drawing to win the actual quilt.

And the total sum of the $5 and other donations, that we are quite happy to accept, will all go to the Marshall County Relay for Life in June.

What a bang for your buck!

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