What A Year It's Been

It would be hard to write today's post without acknowledging the day's casting announcements for the new One Life to Live.  After all, without One Life to Live, there would be no NotWashedUpYet. I might be writing, but I would surely have chosen a different blog title.
 
Both core and supporting actors have signed on.  It appears that what was once just an idea may actually become a reality.  A year ago, it would have been hard to imagine, but, as I know better than anyone, a lot of things can change in a year.  And while I and many of the other cast and crew members may join together to make a show that has the same name as before, I imagine it will be a new show in many ways, a show infused with the experiences all the people involved have had in the last 12-18 months. Because that's how life is.  What happens each day matters, and informs what will happen the next.
 
My high school history teacher started every year by showing an episode of Star Trek in which the smallest change in a civilization made radical changes in the future of that civilization.  His point, that every event, even a small one, in history, could impact countless things after, was pretty powerful.
 
We are not the same people we were a year ago.  But as dedicated as people were, right up to the end of that One Life to Live, I am sure that the new One Life to Live team will be just as dedicated. To working together, to learning together, and to telling great stories, stories that can't help but reflect what a year it's been.