A Single Day Captured, As If in a Snow Globe

There is an ache in growing up — in the limbo between young and old, between an idea and creation, between desire and calling, between potential and fulfillment or disappointment. I tend to think I’ve outgrown or outsmarted this feeling until I see a piece like Primary Stages’s “On That Day In Amsterdam,” which brings me back to desires I’ve suppressed, the ghosts of what might have been.