Highlight of every summer – the Paperhand Puppet Intervention show!

The show was great – even Shawn was impressed, and teenagers are hard to impress!  The story was more abstract than most of their shows, but the puppets were really beautiful.  There was a lot about Earth goddesses, which was kind of heavy handed but gorgeous to watch.  As the evening got darker, the stilt-walkers came out dressed as skeletons and did a wild masquerade dance.  And at the end, an enormous green dragon died and came back to life, and flew out over the audience, attended by crowds of children lifting their hands up to touch the green scales and golden wings.

I hadn’t taken Emily since she was pretty little, and I was determined to take her again this year. So Emily and Angie and Myndi and Shawn and Ken and Karen and Xak and me and Paul all went to the puppet show together.  It was amazing – the puppet show was wonderful, but the really amazing thing was just sitting there on a beautiful evening with so many of the people I love, all in the same place.  After the show, Emily and Angie were playing with Xak, and I couldn’t pay attention at all to the grownup conversation the rest of us were having.  I just kept watching them, and I couldn’t believe how happy it made me.