The Life of Mackenzie

I am a little behind on this considering how busy I had been, so here is something I did about this time last month.      I went to see the Auguste Rodin exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on Tuesday July 18th. I love how involved and detailed, I guess you can say, large exhibits such as this are, because there were so much to look at not only from Rodin himself, but other artists that were associated him. There are paintings and sculptures from other Impressionist artists such as Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Monet, and Renoir in the exhibit, among other artists, as well. It makes sense thinking about it now, but I wasn't totally aware about how closely Rodin, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, and Renoir were with each other. However, they were in the same social and artistic circle, so I should have put two and two together I guess. I have seen a couple of Monet's works already at the Philbrook Museum earlier this year, but I was excited to...

       I saw Jessica Kirson at the Bricktown Comedy Club in Tulsa yesterday evening (08/14/23). I had been so excited to see her in person as I had been following her online for years now. I think I discovered her on Facebook, actually, because she use to post videos of herself in the car singing along to gospel music and other shenanigans, and I just thought she was pretty funny. I had been following her YouTube channel and I have seen her on podcasts in the past, so I've been following her for some years now. I just happened to see one night scrolling through Facebook at work that her page posted an update to her comedy tour and Tulsa was added as one of those stops. I was super excited as I am in the Tulsa area (obviously) and I bought a ticket as soon as I could. Six months in advance. It was surreal to see her in person, and I felt the same way seeing Fortune Feimster back in late June, because you mainly see comedians or other well-known people on t...

     I've been so busy that I have apparently have not been too good about posting everything that I participated in or experienced. So much had happened with these past two or three months and it is just going to be so much busier super soon. I will be working two jobs for the next year. It sucks that I have not been on top of posting everything I had intended to post. In June, the state that I live in experienced a derecho, which I have never experienced before (I dont think) and it knocked the power out for many, many people. I was out of power for nearly a week and trying to survive in 90 + degree weather with no electricity is no fun. In July, I had been running around with family events around the fourth of July, had a museum visit, and unfortunately been dealing with a death of a friend that I have known since I was sixteen. It's just been busy.      Anyway, this is a bit of old news from June 30th when I saw Fortune Feimster at Osage Cas...

     Candace's viewing and funeral were quite lovely, and I think she looks very beautiful in the attire she is wearing. I very much loved hearing her family sing Amazing Grace in Cherokee on Sunday. I haven't heard it sung in Cherokee since I was a teenager since I loved learning the Cherokee language as a kid, having gone to language classes then. I was very pleased to hear it again and witness it in person as an adult. I even studied it very early in undergraduate school. I am happy my sister Shelby was able to make it there to the funeral yesterday.      Everytime I think of Candace, I think of her when I first met her in the Fall of 2008 at the Nazarene Church in Youth Group at the age of sixteen. Chelsea Peary invited me to go to church with her and I continued going for a while after that first time. So, when I remember Candace, I remember her as a younger kid before she was a teenager, and I remember seeing her with her siblings and othe...

        This past week was my birthday week and I had a goal I wanted to meet this year, and that was to go and do things I have on my bucket list that I created. I started this last year in 2022 for my birthday and I had gone to places such as the Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie museums, the Tulsa Botanical Gardens, I ate at Sisserous Caribbean Restaurant for the first time in downtown Tulsa, etc.  I, of course, did not go do all of these activities in one day, but rather went to them throughout the week and I am glad I did that because I felt weirdly productive doing it. Since I have more time recently, I been wanting to meet goals that I have put into this bucket list just so that I can remind myself that I have done things I wanted to do and had met them. This is really the main major reason why I go to so many events like I do, to be able to experience I haven't before while I can and still have the time. I digress. For ...

On May 14th I went to see Tulsa Ballet's 2023 Signature Series at Tulsa University's Lorton Performance Center where they performed three modern works from well-known choregraphers. From what I understand, Tulsa Ballet does a signature series performance where they perform more modern works at the end of every season and this was my first time experiencing it. The performances include Within by choregrapher Katarzyna Kozielska, Cacti by choregrapher Alexander Ekman, and While You Were Gone by choregrapher Jennifer Weber. I will say in advance that Cacti was my favorite out of the selection of performances they did that night and I will expound on that in a little bit. While You Were Gone definitely comes in second for how I enjoyed it, but I have to admit that that is because I read the section about it in the program pamphlet after the performance, and so I have a greater appreciation of what it was all about because now I see it as moving than beforehand. I really...

I have been slacking on keeping up with posting due to exahustion from work and trying to be a functioning adult, but I am now getting around to it! Admittingly, this is running a month behind and I made sure to keep the program pamphlets for when I finally getting to posting this. I went to see Neave Trio at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center in downtown Tulsa on April 23rd and I have to admit that I have not previously heard of them beforehand. However, it does appear that they have been touring and making albums as group since 2010 and even been Grammy nominated previously before, so they have definitely made a name for themselves! I have been trying to find events to go to so that I can discover new things and I guess expand my cultural palate. I may have already explained that in one of my previous posts, but that is reasoniong behind me going around to so many different events; I just want to experience new things while I still can and have the time. I am always going to some...