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Making Each Day Count
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What are you doing the rest of your life?
ately, I’ve been thinking about aging. Not
in a frightened “1 don’t want to die" kind of
way, but in the resigned “There are less
days ahead of me than behind” kind of way.
Such thinking has me also recognizing that
there’s no time to waste—it’s up to me to
every day special.
This idea was reinforced when 1 received an
invitation to celebrate my good friend Mike
Long’s 36th birthday in retrograde—i.e., the year
he began counting backward from 40. (For the
mathematically challenged, that makes Mike 44.)
So, I dispensed with the usual cocktail chitchat
and asked everyone 1 met what they still hope to
accomplish in their lifetime.
For starters, travel seems to lx? on a lot of minds.
Tyler Traudt would like to visit each continent.
He’s been on three so far. Everett Charters would
like to see the Seven Wonders of the World from
the Middle Ages. Of the ones still standing, the Taj
Mahal is the last he hasn’t seen, although plans are
in the works for a trip to the Indian subcontinent
this winter. Baylor Von Daudt would like to go
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around the world, particularly to China. Joe
Kaufman wants to see Antartica before it melts,
and Suzanne Derrick wants to “make lots of mon
ey so 1 can travel around the world, particularly to
Africa,” where the excitement of a safari looms.
Travel also heckons Eduardo Mulero, but he
pines for the altruistic kind. Eduardo dreams of
volunteering as a dentist in Third World countries.
He’s starting this fall by spending two weeks in
Cambodia with Medical Teams International (for
merly Northwest Medical Teams). Other budding
do-g<x)ders include Garret Saiki, who “would like
to save a life before 1 lose my own," and JJ Higgins,
who would like to start a program to help feed the
world’s hungry. “Everyone deserves a meal,” he says.
The following week, I continued this line of
questioning at Matinee Idyll, Portland Center
Stage’s very successful attempt to engage the gay
community with brunch and a performance of the
stupendous Cabaret. (With attendance exceeding
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a hundred, dates are being considered for two more
shows.) During the delicious meal artistic director
Chris Coleman confessed, “I’d make a film, go to
India, skydive, have lunch with Hillary Clinton.”
Ron Mitchell also wants to skydive (perhaps in
tandem with Chris), while Scott Hall wants to see
the North and South Poles (perhaps while dating
Joe Kaufman?).
Missy Townsend would like to “finally learn to
play the guitar.” She’s been trying to
teach herself since she was 15. Missy’s
girlfriend, Angelyn Nicholson, fanta
sizes about performing in a drag show
complete with wig, stilettos, corset and
eyelashes. “1 envision three women
doing a real sassy Aretha or Patti
LaBelle number.”
As soon as 1 posed the question to
pentagenerian Barb Beck, she knew
exactly where 1 was coming from. To
celebrate her recent 50th birthday,
partner Diane Flanders took her to the
jungles of Mexico. Diane fancies
traveling to Europe for two months,
while Barb imagines sitting on a tropi
cal island and “doing what I should be
doing: writing lesbian fiction about
relationships.”
Cara Frey, five months pregnant
with a baby girl, would like to “streak
Wrigley Field on a pogo stick.” She’s had
this unusual fantasy since first pogo-ing
around her childhixxl back yard,
although presumably she’ll wait until
after the baby’s born. Cara’s partner of
four years, Jen Warner, would like to
win the lottery and move to a high-rise in
Manhattan. Speaking of Manhattan, famed Big
Apple chanteur Michael Feinstein has taken an
interest in Karen Kantor’s musical revue, Women of
a Certain Age, about a quartet of ladies who reflect
on their lives through the prism of four decades of
experience.
John Posey wants to have a three-way with
a pair of hot Russians or Italians. (Why not one of
each?) And Casey Bass, who moved to Portland
from Pittsburgh just six months ago, wants “my
gixxi qualities to be 75 percent of my personality.”
He went on to explain, “1 want to do the little
things that make people feel good and put smiles
on their faces.”
Now that’s something I can commit to before
I’m Out Going. ©
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