Posted in art, creativity, dreams, success on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“A Man can consider himself a success if he wakes up in the morning, goes to bed at night, and in-between did exactly what he wanted.” ~ Bob Dylan “Forever is composed of nows.” ~ Emily Dickinson Why do we delay? We wait for more money, more time, more experience, for permission from others. Maybe [...]
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Posted in art, career, movie, New York City, work on January 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“And if that’s all you learned from 9/11, if that’s all you remembered, that: My God, you could extinguish life so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and it could happen to me, and therefore I should think harder about the way I spend my life instead of just wasting it. Now, it’s not going to teach you [...]
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Posted in art, literature, work on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My friend, Col, posted A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on her Facebook page as 2011 drew to a close. It’s last stanza, “Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait” is such a beautiful sentiment as [...]
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Posted in art, career, choices, creativity on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.” – Chekhov I spent a lot of 2011 in a mode of planning and personal development. At turns, I would get frustrated with what appeared to be a lack of progress, or at least a lack of progress at the pace I wanted. [...]
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Posted in art, books, business, comedy, creativity, innovation, inspiration, invention, theatre on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Comics say funny things and comedic actors say things funny.” ~ Ed Wynn via Carol Burnett, Happy Accidents Over the winter holidays I started reading the wonderful book Happy Accidents, a memoir by comedic actress Jane Lynch. At turns the book is hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. Jane has the incredible ability to make people feel [...]
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Posted in art, career, commitment, determination, passion, theatre on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Acting doesn’t come natural to me. I’m very cerebral about it, unlike Joanne (Woodward), who is an intuitive actor. Acting to me is like dredging a river. It’s a painful experience. I simply do not have the intuitive talent. I worry about acting and constantly complain to myself about my own performance…and this doesn’t fall [...]
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Posted in art, music on December 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.” ~ Ray Charles I saw this [...]
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Posted in art, courage, fear, inspiration, theatre on December 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want [...]
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Posted in adventure, art, choices, courage, creativity, justice on December 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Upon the very strong advice of my friend and mentor, Richard, I bought a ticket to see the Metropolitan Opera’s final performance of Satyagraha (“truth force” in Sanskrit), an opera by Philip Glass that tells the story of Gandhi’s life in South Africa through the ancient Hindu text of the Bhagavad Gita. The Gita is [...]
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Posted in art, creativity, religion, yoga on December 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Being ‘spiritual’ simply means being willing to look into the nature of life, to ask questions and to wonder, and to listen. It also means seeing art everywhere.” ~ Quang Ho via Daily Good I’m often asked by friends, family members, and students who are new to yoga whether or not they can do yoga [...]
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