Mamma Mia !!

昨晚到downtown去看音樂劇Mamma Mia，原本認為全劇只是轟炸ABBA合唱團的組曲，沒想到我和室友Monica從頭到尾笑地快岔氣，第一次看到謝幕後還有好幾段安可的音樂劇，也是第一次看到沒有管絃樂團而是電子琴樂團伴奏的音樂劇，這些ABBA的成名曲套上一個可愛的故事果然驚豔全場，雖然華麗一點但也散播著追尋真性情的訊息。



我事後和Monica討論劇中的辣媽有著兩位姊妹淘相互支持，那是劇中人物，卻與觀眾的內心一齊共鳴，悲傷時有人安慰、開心時有人同歡、苦惱時有人商量、當主角時有人當配角......的確，現實生活中很難找到除家人外可以無所不談的朋友，能夠維持長久的情誼也更不容易，最令人感動的朋友其實就是人在低潮時最關心你的那個人，或是有一種朋友沒有常聯絡但偶爾打通電話慰問一下，若有以上不同類型的朋友那實在很幸福。

建宏婚禮過後半個月，他細心的傳給我婚禮照片，見到一張張熟悉的面孔，還有他們獻唱的樣子，一陣陣的思念湧上心頭，尤其是昨晚聽到劇中一首吉他伴奏的"Thank you for the music"，實在無法克制想大唱一番的念頭，我一直記著在合唱團送舊晚會上的謝詞中說道: 希望將來有緣可以再和你們相聚組個阿卡貝拉團。從不同的消息得知很多人退伍或入伍了、有人換醫院了、也有人繼續恪守職務，包括我、大家各懷理想繼續向未來奔跑，但當時的願望不知何時會成真呢?

今天風大的讓我被風吹著跑，之前過了一個沒有雪的感恩節，真正的冬季似乎今天才要開始，即使如此我還是抱著暖暖的希望，希望不管朋友是新是舊，友誼能持續保溫，就像Mamma Mia裡的辣媽那樣永遠年輕奔放。

p.s. 那天英文老師帶我們去欣賞市圖書館內一場詩歌朗誦，主題似乎是"winter"，最後一位朗誦者用淡淡的語氣述說一首詩，那是歡送冬天離開的一首詩，雖然我對詩一點也不內行的，但不知你讀過後是否也和我一樣有"寧靜的震撼"這種感覺呢?

Good-bye, and Keep Cold (by Robert Frost)

This saying good-bye on the edge of the dark
And cold to an orchard so young in the bark
Reminds me of all that can happen to harm
An orchard away at the end of the farm
All winter, cut off by a hill from the house.
I don't want it girdled by rabbit and mouse,
I don't want it dreamily nibbled for browse
By deer, and I don't want it budded by grouse.
(If certain it wouldn't be idle to call
I'd summon grouse, rabbit, and deer to the wall
And warn them away with a stick for a gun.)
I don't want it stirred by the heat of the sun.
(We made it secure against being, I hope,
By setting it out on a northerly slope.)
No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;
But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."
How often already you've had to be told,
Keep cold, young orchard.
Good-bye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."
I have to be gone for a season or so.
My business awhile is with different trees,
Less carefully nourished, less fruitful than these,
And such as is done to their wood with an axe--
Maples and birches and tamaracks.
I wish I could promise to lie in the night
And think of an orchard's arboreal plight
When slowly (and nobody comes with a light)
Its heart sinks lower under the sod.
But something has to be left to God.