I walked the city streets with one of my daughters today, along blocks
where we've been a thousand times. Yet, after many weeks of hours on
trains and hours at work, the walk was a new discovery for me. For the
last few weeks, my walking has been only purposeful and hurried--fast to
make a train, fast to get home sooner, fast to get somewhere after
work just a little late or to make it before somewhere closes. So, while
we certainly had an agenda (some things have to get done on weekends
or will never get done at all), we had time to talk, and observe the
locals and the tourists and the store windows, all things that you miss
when walking at breakneck speed. So today, everything old was new again.
Tomorrow at work will be the same. I will take a train, same as usual. I
will edit or work in the studio, same as usual, either way, working to
make dramatic shows. The difference is that tomorrow, after weeks of
anticipation, we will get an idea of the public's reaction to what we've
been doing all this time. While we are working on making episodes,
episodes will come online to be seen everywhere. It might be old hat by
now for us, but it will be new for thousands, no, (we hope) millions of
viewers. And just as my walk in my familiar city took on a new feel
today, I suspect that work will take on a new feel tomorrow. Will it be
excitement, or anxiety, or relief? I don't know. I only know that
tomorrow, for me, and for the rest of the production team, and for the viewers of
One Life to Live and All My Children, everything old will truly be new again.
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