Two chance encounters yesterday....

Yesterday was the Arts Festival in my town--alongside the canal project wending through downtown.

I guess there are two pieces of important info about my past. One is that I am/was a trained actor, and worked pretty extensively with the groups here in town. Secondly, my ex, a designer, cheated on me with several ladies of our acquaintance in the very small performance world of our town.

So, I ran into a delightful woman I used to work with early in my marriage. We hugged and chatted. it was nice, and brought back some very warm feelings and smiles. They were a good group, which eventually disbanded, but many of the folk are spread throughout town in other groups.

Then, of course, a theatre company I and my ex worked for late in my marriage was handing out flyers for their summer shows. I sped up and sprinted past, but bf stopped to get some materials. Sadly, he chatted with a woman I know my ex had slept with. They are a decently talented group, but I do find it hard to accept that they knew the affair(s) were going on, and yet did nothing about it. Not to mention that this particular chick is one of the founding members.

BF tries to get me involved in performance again--but I am not sure I want to be. Or can be, for that matter. The last few times I tried to memorize lines was pretty bad due to brain fog. It takes a lot of energy. Plus, it would take a lot of injured pride to interact with people who knew of the infidelity.

**sigh**