aids quilt

this morning the aids quilt display at keystone college opened. my rylan and i were there before even the workers were there. i had tried to explain to him what it was all about, and why if they were going to open the quilt, i wanted to be there for it. (There's kinda a ritual or ceremony in opening the quilt that is beautifula nd iw anted to witness it if they did it. they didn't.) so rather than trying to explain it, i just showed him the excerpt from the film common threads. by the end, the last ten, maybe fifteen minutes of the film, i was crying.
so we went to the display. no one was there. we were the only people who went, even there before the workers got there.
at first i was disappointed. it was only 6 blocks, and the display wasn't the greatest. there's a lot more that could have been done with the space, and all of that (being a theatre person, and a quilter, and having done this before..) but even with just the 6 blocks, we went and read every panel, the messages written there, and not even half way through, i was choking up, crying quietly.
two panels were local - one from carbondale pennsylvania, and one from clarks summit pennsylvania. and one of them was pedro zamora's (from Mtv's the real world, back before it was just sex and alcohol.. back when the show actually was a social experiement. the season with Puck)
i was so gratefyl to be able to share this with rylan, something so deeply personal and somethign i am passionate about.. i wish everyone in the world could see it. could experience the quilt....
tomorow after school, i am working at it. will post about that probably.