The mother lode of it's meant to be

As the sayings go, 'All things happen for a reason' and 'It was meant to be'.

I do 'experience' these sayings every once in awhile.

Like when the check engine light came on costing me a day and 100 mile back track. keeping me from Mexico, but BEFORE I crossed the border. Or when, tired of driving, I couldn't find a decent place to stop in the desert, but as I pulled over to let a string of fast cars pass me, looked to my right and behold the paradise where I spent the next 7 days. Or yesterday when I finally found cheap gas (relatively speaking) but they were out, waiting for a delivery, so I spent the next 16 hours in the parking lot and to amuse myself read all the free local magazines on the little racks outside the convenience store. To my delight I found an article and an invitation for Women in the Arts.

An invitation to a  3 day workshop presented by The Los Angeles Women's Theater Project and being held at the Aqua Soleil Hotel, Mineral Water and Spa Resort in Desert Hot Springs just a short 45 minute drive and kind of in the direction I would be heading anyway.

For a $75.00 ticket the entertainment starts at 4:00 today and continues until Sunday evening, a three day celebration of women artists in theater, film, music, literature and visual arts. The special guest is singer-songwriter Janis Ian who will be in concert Saturday evening and teach a special master class in artistry on Sunday.

The film "Homo" will show tonight. It is described as exploring the world from a different point of view - what if the world was gay and being straight made you a minority? The film follows the lives of two heterosexual lovers as they fall in love in a homosexual world, only to be torn apart by society.

Also tonight "Gayby's Playdate." It is Playdate day for the "Under One's" at a community activity center. Suri and Melissa, two ten month old girls who are strangers to one another, have been assigned to the same playpen. Their discovery of vastly different attitudes, opinions and family lifestyles make for a comic and sometimes harrowing encounter.

And about 100 others! No kidding!  Come and go with me if you are in the area.

I feel like I have hit the mother lode!