I was reading my daughter's Blog the other day (sorry Page, I still haven't had time to go back and really read your new entries and/or make comments) and realized I sometimes miss the obvious. Because I use middle or nicknames for people on my entries (unless I
accidentally "slip" which isn't unheard of), and my husband and son have the same middle name and my daughter and
granddaughter have the same middle name - I have been using the number 2 beside the son and granddaughter to distinguish when talking about both of them in the same entry. HELLO???? I realized when reading my daughter's blog that I should
have been using my son's stage name - Kurt Kandy. Yep - my famous son - the poet, writer, artist, musician and actor! The way he came to use this name is when he and his wife started writing and/or acting in some of the No Shame Theater pieces along with some of their friends. This is the way it works: People create their own short (5 minutes or less) performance piece in any style and rehearse it as much as they want—or read it cold—it’s up to them! They have to get there in time to fill one of the available open slots and take their place in the spotlight. Leah wrote a commercial that I wish she could find because it totally rocked! It was a good outlet for Kurt's creative talents which are many. The hiccup is it takes a lot of your free time away
from things that are more important so is very hard to balance. Kurt has always been the entertainer - even as a young boy. I mean come on - the man is cooking steaks on the front porch here! :-) - not in a Broadway play - or is he? This made him quite different from other boys his age who were working so hard to be cool. It endeared him to so many who understood his talents and the sometimes overpowering need to express them and saw him for the really cool dude he has always been. All of this eventually led to Kurt acting in a few summer stock plays. As much as he enjoyed doing this, it became obvious that some of these endeavors took too much time away from the more important things and put him in close association with people who do not share his goals for himself and his family - so he has had to back off on getting too involved. It is hard to have so much creative energy stored up inside of you without having too many outlets you can see for them to be expressed in a
way you might want. That is where the hard part comes in - finding the responsible way to exercise your talents in harmony with you true goals. Sad to say, most people don't have a clue how hard it is to curtail the urges that go with the need. I love this picture of Kurt with a dear friend from our KH in Durham he has known his whole life. Kurt thinks so much of him and really liked this picture too. If I haven't told you lately (which I doubt) I'm proud of you Kurt Kandy and love you very much......
have been using my son's stage name - Kurt Kandy. Yep - my famous son - the poet, writer, artist, musician and actor! The way he came to use this name is when he and his wife started writing and/or acting in some of the No Shame Theater pieces along with some of their friends. This is the way it works: People create their own short (5 minutes or less) performance piece in any style and rehearse it as much as they want—or read it cold—it’s up to them! They have to get there in time to fill one of the available open slots and take their place in the spotlight. Leah wrote a commercial that I wish she could find because it totally rocked! It was a good outlet for Kurt's creative talents which are many. The hiccup is it takes a lot of your free time away
from things that are more important so is very hard to balance. Kurt has always been the entertainer - even as a young boy. I mean come on - the man is cooking steaks on the front porch here! :-) - not in a Broadway play - or is he? This made him quite different from other boys his age who were working so hard to be cool. It endeared him to so many who understood his talents and the sometimes overpowering need to express them and saw him for the really cool dude he has always been. All of this eventually led to Kurt acting in a few summer stock plays. As much as he enjoyed doing this, it became obvious that some of these endeavors took too much time away from the more important things and put him in close association with people who do not share his goals for himself and his family - so he has had to back off on getting too involved. It is hard to have so much creative energy stored up inside of you without having too many outlets you can see for them to be expressed in a way you might want. That is where the hard part comes in - finding the responsible way to exercise your talents in harmony with you true goals. Sad to say, most people don't have a clue how hard it is to curtail the urges that go with the need. I love this picture of Kurt with a dear friend from our KH in Durham he has known his whole life. Kurt thinks so much of him and really liked this picture too. If I haven't told you lately (which I doubt) I'm proud of you Kurt Kandy and love you very much......
I love Kurt Kandy
ReplyDeleteI am also a HUGE fan of Kurt especially when he wears his Super Chunk shirt!
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