Shakespeare Re-Discovered

Measure for Measure

 Many years ago several times a year we would travel by car from the Detroit area to Stratford, Ontario, Canada to stay at hotels or bed & breakfasts, dine at amazing restaurants, stroll along the Avon, eat picnics that we had assembled at home, amazing picnics, in the park, and attend marvelous plays. We saw many world class actors and made many lasting memories. We escaped the humdrum and the mind numbingness of our jobs, good jobs, but less than. (Clicking on photos will enlarge them.)

Unheimlich - Jonathan Rajewski

I was much younger then, of course, and deeper stuff went both into my brain and also often right over my head. Fortunately I remember. And also happily I have had the experiences now to really appreciate and understand what surely my older and wiser friends back then, now long gone, were better equipped to appreciate/understand then. I miss them terribly.

Sexus - Jonathan Rajewski

We saw a diverse array of presentations from many playwrights  in several theaters. I still sing the Gilbert and Sullivan songs and enjoy their musicals whenever they are shown. I really enjoyed the comedies, tragedies, dramas but I think I enjoyed the companionship of like minded souls the most. We always had a good time.

Untitled - Jonathan Rajewski

The weather has been horrific which has given me lots of down time, time to revisit previously recorded programs. I had forgotten how amazing the whole PBS/BBC series on Shakespeare's plays -  "Shakespeare Uncovered" with Romola Garai - is.

There Is No Heaven for Concepts

Jonathan Rajewski

Shakespeare based this play (Measure for Measure) on the Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 7:1 - "Judge not that he be not judged for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye meet it shall to you be measured again." (There's the measure for measure.)

Dow Chemical Death Camp

Jonathan Rajewski

All my life I've heard "Judge not lest you be judged". Excellent advice, in my opinion. I've also heard, like everyone else, that you've got to be careful because "karma" will give you what you gave others. Well, I may be speaking out of turn, but I don't believe that. Of course I wish that were true. It would be nice to think what you put out there will come back to you, the bad as well as the good, but I don't think that happens and more importantly, for me at least, that's not why you do what's right. Why you do unto others what you would have them do unto you. Simply you do what's right and we all really do know what's right.

Chalk - Jonathan Rajewski*

No. I just think it's easier to be nice and a lot less stressful. There are many bad actors out there, some of them are in politics. It has always been thus. I do believe that more people are good and do good. Yes, of course, sometimes good people do bad things. But on the whole they live good lives. There are also some bad people who occasionally do good things. Sometimes. And there are irretrievably bad guys. The general trend is up even though there are down times. Like now.

Untitled - Jonathan Rajewski* 

Untitled - Jonathan Rajewski*

* - not in my collection - unfortunately.