Saturday, 26 July 2025

“Sky-Circles” by Rumi

 


The way of love is not

a subtle argument.

The door there

is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles

of their freedom

How do they learn that?

They fall, and falling,

they are given wings.



Image: "Birds flying at sun set” by Chukwu Chibueze Pascal (Kingaustin07), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Note: Translated by Coleman Banks. Collected in A Year with Rumi - Daily Readings (2006).

Readers Theatre on the Horizon???


I haven’t been active in my Casey persona in recent years (as a writer, that is!) for two reasons:

I have been focussing on my Brigit writings, as Mael Brigde, and this has taken a lot of time and energy. (You can find a link to my book, blogs, etc. here.)

VCon, our annual SF convention here in Vancouver, Canada, has been absent for several years. Over the last year or two, volunteers have been hosting events in order to rebuild toward VCon, and I’ve enjoyed these very much, but as a regular attendee, not as a panelist. In November, they are presenting a one day convention called CONnections, and I have decided to pitch a readers theatre, as we have done in previous years as the Pallahaxi Players Readers Theatre. 

I hope this happens. I haven’t volunteered this time around to be on panels, and with the very sad and sudden death of Fran Skene, there is not likely to be a Turkey Reading (one of the greatest delights of VCons past, for me, at least), but I would love to sit down with fellow writers and read out something delightful for the audience.

We may have something in the can already, but if you have a short, stirring or humorous, play that would suit readers theatre*, we would be happy to see if your writing would be a fit for us. Or if you know of something in the public domain that would work well for an audience of SF and fantasy fans, we'd be interested in knowing about that, too.

If you are interested in participating at CONnections, you can pitch your idea here:




* Unlike actors memorising lines and acting with a set, we sit at a table together and read out our parts.



Image: “Alien Amor” by Laura Molina (Laura Molina/National Museum of Mexican Art) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons