Welcome to:  Carol Lynn Pearson’s “News and Views,” February, 2007

A Newsletter devoted to spirituality, sexuality and healing

 
Carol Lynn is the author of:
No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones
Goodbye, I Love You
Facing East,  and many other works (see www.nomoregoodbyes.com.)
 
IN THIS ISSUE:
1--Up Close and Personal
2--More on Upcoming Performances of Facing East
3--Update on responses to No More Goodbyes
 
1–UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.  A few days ago I added a new scene to my play, Facing East (Mormon couple deals with suicide of gay son).  In a “memory moment” Alex, the father, recalls his son Andy saying as they travel home from a hunting trip—
 
            “I saw a deer this morning, Dad.  A four point.  All of a sudden it was there, right in front of me.  Didn’t move or anything, like it was frozen.  We just looked at each other.  So close.  I aimed the rifle...and just looked at him.  He was so beautiful.  ….I brought the gun down...and he ran into the trees.  If only I’d seen him far off, like up on the hill or something.  I think I could have shot him.  But he was so close...I could see his eyes.”  
Synchronistically, the day after I emailed Jerry, the play’s director, that I wanted to write a deer hunting scene, I went to see “The Queen.”  That evening I wrote in my diary:
 
  “There is an awesome scene in which Elizabeth suddenly is face to face with a seven-point stag that her husband Prince Phillip and others have been stalking.  She is transfixed by the beauty of it.  Later she learns it has been killed and she is very sad.  When you see anything living–really see it–you can’t want to kill it, you want it to live.  In my play, Andy will not be able to kill the deer after seeing it up close, but we will have an awful knowledge that he is going to kill himself.  And we will know that he never really saw himself for the beauty that he was; nor did his parents truly see him.  Nor did Andy see God truly.  If we are close enough to someone to see their eyes—ourselves included—we want them to live.”

 

2--MORE ON UPCOMING PERFORMANCES OF Facing East.


We will have another Utah run (April-May) prior to the New York run.

 

Ø      Studio Theatre at Rose Wagner Hall, 3 Weeks, April 19-May 6

Ø      Tickets are available at 801-355-ARTS, on sale March 1, $20

Ø      Thursday-Saturday at 8; Sunday at 2 & 5:30

Ø      Go to http://www.planbtheatrecompany.org/ for more information.
 

.  New York City off-Broadway dates are May 25-June 29, Atlantic Theatre, 330 W. 16th St

.  San Francisco run is August 10-26, Theatre Rhinoceros, 2926 16th St
.  Information on tickets in future newsletter or at http://www.planbtheatrecompany.org/. 
 
3—UPDATE ON NO MORE GOODBYES: CIRCING THE WAGONS AROUND OUR GAY LOVED ONES.

 

Among the most treasured responses I’ve received to the new book are these from two brothers:
 
“The words in your book have given a voice to feelings I've never been able
to express on my own.  Thank you for helping me understand myself, giving me
new direction, and giving me a hope I wouldn't have dared to dream of
before.  God bless you.” 
 
“I'm about half way through No More Goodbyes.  My older brother is gay….I've always supported and loved my brother, along with the rest of my family, but your book is helping me to understand him and his lifelong situation a little better….He's one of my best friends and your book played a major part in saving his life.  Your book was the first to shed a different light, a light someone could live by, not measure themselves by.”  
 
Read more comments, two free chapters or purchase No More Goodbyes, Goodbye, I Love You, or Facing East at www.nomoregoodbyes.com. 
 
On this Valentine’s Day and always, let’s remember one of my favorite quotes: 
            “In real love you want the other person’s good.  In romantic love you want
            the other person.”
                        --Margaret Anderson
 
Love to All,
Carol Lynn 
 

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