What Actors Know, Self-With-Others & Other Writings
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Good and Bad don’t mean much
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Art’s not a luxury
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The most toxic thought of all.
It’s the most toxic thought of all. It underlies much unhappiness, self-sabotage, violence, anger, deceit, and so many other of the world’s ills. It’s a thought none of us are born with, but most of us learn. It takes many forms, but at foundation it’s simple this: ‘I’m not good enough.’ Sometimes it appears as:…
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Adapt or Reject?
When the world seems impossible….. Fit in/drop out? Adapt to ‘the system’/leave the system? Accommodate to the world/imagine new worlds into being? I write these as binaries — suggesting an either/or response. They’re actually dyads — two perspectives required for healthy growth. We live in times of exceptional, unsustainable and inhuman stress. The societies we’ve…
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En-COURAGE!
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Don’t push so hard
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3 different audiences
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It’s not your fault
…but might be your responsibility. For many of us, surviving is pretty tough right now — financially, emotionally, in terms of mental and physical health, maintaining relationships and community connectedness, keeping alive the spark of passion and joy. There’s a lot of pressure. Most of us feel it. All of us see how the pressure…
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Problems are not problems
Directing a show is a complex journey. Each production is unique. Yet there are recurrent stages. Most frequent — getting stuck: standing in a room of people looking to me for guidance and inspiration, feeling dried up, stale, repetitive and dull. I directed scores of shows over the decades. Starting from scripts, stories, ideas or…
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Finding Focus
Sunday was a tough day. My thoughts decided to gang up on me. I could have predicted it would be tough. I understand why. I’d plenty of ammunition in my thinking to stop it from being tough. Nonetheless, it was tough. I was distracted, unsettled, beset by demons. I’m about to launch ‘Hummingbird Wisdom; ‘How…