This morning, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, I watched a woman struggle onto a bus, apologize to the bus driver for the stroller that was not yet folded up, put down her bag, grab the stroller that was rolling, bend down for her bag, catch the baby that was starting to fall out of the front carrier she wore, set down her bag again, deal with the baby, pick up the bag, look for her MTA card, set down the bag, catch the rolling stroller…her mother who was with her keeping the toddler in one place offered two fingers to keep the stroller from rolling away. After the mother with dark circles under her eyes and half her hair shoved into a rubber band on the back of her head sat down and folded the stroller, her mother said to her admiringly; “You are so adept.”
Then I went to met Jef Johnson on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and we sat at Think Coffee in the Bowery and talked about clowns and clowning for over two hours.
Tonight, more Touch the Moon clownlab at Theatrelab in Chelsea.