To Blog or not to Blog


Well ... I guess to blog ... at the suggestion of my friend Tony in Berlin, I've decided to start this digital account of the goings on my life lately. Mainly because I want to start documenting and testifying the process of doing the Everest mini-series and all the other crazy adventures known as "my life".

The shock has finally started to wear off that I'm going to be playing the role as Sungdare, one of the Sherpas that helped Canadian climber Laurie Skreslet and crew make it to the top of Everest in '82. I just told one of my students today that as an acting teacher and even Buddhist youth leader, I do feel like a Sherpa helping people make it to the top of their own personal Everest. Helping them as they fall and get up again. So it makes all the sense in the world that I'm doing this role.

As it stands all I know is that I'm booked for the role, no dates, no money ... but the more I talk about it I know it's a reality ... 9 weeks in Jasper, Alberta ... and possibly 3 weeks in Switzerland. An experience of a lifetime ... I don't need to audition a lot ... I just like booking a few good ones thru out the year and I'm a happy camper.

Things change in an instant, one second I'm trying not to panic about the flood and possibly ruined floors in my apartment and next minute I'm going to be in this amazing project. Life is funny ...
I've also just retuned from this amazing trip in LA where I won my Oscar pool. Easiest $80 US that I made. 19 out of 24 categories. I can never get those damned shorts of docs right ... oh well.

So begins this amazing new journey ... where this experience takes me I'm not sure ... I'm so happy and grateful for the experience. I just have to keep chanting and stay grounded ... and after 20 years of doing this acting thing (today also marks that Anniversary), I finally feel like I'm getting it ... I guess it's the rewards of never giving up ... yet again, starting own personal journey to the top of Everest.