As part of our involvement with the Marlboro Music Festival (featured this week in The New Yorker Magazine in an article by Alex Ross), we find ourselves in the wooded hills of Vermont for a period of time each summer.
This year, with two children under two in tow, it has taken a few days to get into the rhythm of working in an environment so different from what we’re used to. The plan, of course, was to take a “vacation.” As our current clients were informed – we will be generally unavailable for these 10 days, except for emergencies (real ones).
However, try as we might to tidy up shop and have all lingering projects closed, new projects jump-started, and little tasks checked off the ever-present list before we left, our best intentions were overridden by a week of technology failures, a sleepless infant, and a puking toddler. So, I find myself in a cabin in the woods, toddler napping and infant nursing while I review that lingering list and make a plan for its completion… Ok, maybe just some progress.
It is a different world up here - peaceful and beautiful on one hand, eerily disconcerting on the other, civilized yet rustic, like one giant juxtaposition. It is hard to keep focus. One of the sites I’m working on is in its final stages and has some glitches to work out. Inevitably, just as I delve into a solution, birdsong will erupt, an insect starts a lecture, or a downpour punctuates the silence. How is it that in my Philadelphia office I can make progress surrounded by sirens, construction and car alarms?
Nevertheless, progress is being made, dear clients. Not to worry! New projects are moving along at a steady clip, and we have just launched a site for Tracy Davidson, a familiar anchor on Philadelphia’s NBC 10. Also, please remember to check back soon for the launches of sites for the Global Travel and Tourism Partnership and Joanna Marie Frankel, a violin soloist.
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