Sunday at the beach
Oliver joined me for an overnight trip to the Wilmington area so we could visit my brother, Joel, who is acting in a community-theater performance of a play called Shakers Revised, by the playwright Rose-Mary Harrington. Joel played two parts, and he was good. The play, about the start of the Shaker religious sect and its emigration to America, was interesting. I was reminded how a black-box theatre can be used to show and tell stories.
Before the play, Oliver and I walked through downtown Wilmington and along the river walk. It was beautiful evening and the city was humming with people on dates, lined up for the One Tree Hill reunions, or like us in search of ice cream.
This morning, after breakfast and goodbyes—Joel had a matinee performance to get to—Oliver and I went to Topsail Beach. The weather was perfect, the waves fun, and the beach not too crowded. So nice. In Surf City, we had lunch at Shaka Tacos, then headed home to Chapel Hill.
The drive to the coast is so easy, and with Joel there always willing to host me, I’m baffled why I don’t head that way more often.
Home. About. Archive. Contact. RSS.
© Anton Zuiker