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“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig wasContinue reading “Just Choose Something”

If someone reaches out to you–particularly someone you’re close to and whose taste you trust–says “this was one of the best pieces of theatre I’ve ever seen”, then you should go see said show. Pronto. No questions asked. Just go. Realize that when someone reaches out and urges you to see something, that person isContinue reading “IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT”

Give a little bitOh, give a little bit of your love to meI’ll give a little bitI’ll give a little bit of my love to youThere’s so much that we need to shareSo send a smile and show you care(Alright) -song “Give A Little Bit” by Supertramp We can always do a little bit more.Continue reading “A Little Bit More”

“I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the mirror and say, “I am getting old,” but Shakespeare looks in the mirror and says, “Devouring Time, blunt thou thy lion’s paws.” -Jim Harrison, book Search For The Genuine Lee: “…Just a sweet kinda suburban silence.” Austin: “What kind ofContinue reading “Seeing and Feeling”

“That was one of the best things I’ve ever seen in my life.” It’s what we hope to feel every time we step into the theatre and see your production. You have the opportunity to give us that. Don’t take it for granted. Do it solely because you love it. Put your whole heart andContinue reading ““One Of The Best Things I’ve Ever Seen In My Life””

“A brand is not a logo. A brand is a promise, a story and a shorthand. A brand tells us what to expect the next time we engage with you.” -Seth Godin “The mission is critical. Once you lose sight of it, everything gets lost. You start doing side projects to satisfy a funder, aContinue reading “Your Brand and Your Mission Statement”

“Attention is the most basic form of love.” -Tara Brach “In the West there is a loneliness, which I call the leprosy of the West. In many ways, it is worse than our poor in Calcutta…We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There areContinue reading ““A Rabbit Noticed My Condition””

Let’s give ’em something to talk aboutLet’s give ’em something to talk aboutLet’s give ’em something to talk aboutHow about love? -song, “Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About” by Bonnie Raitt “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer ofContinue reading “Give Them Something To Talk About”

“How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations When you seek praise, even if you get it,Continue reading “When You Don’t Seek Praise”

“Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome.” -Charlie Munger “Incentives: the most powerful force in the world. When the incentives are crazy, the behavior is crazy. People can be lead to justify and defend nearly anything.” -Morgan Housel, book Same As Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a GoodContinue reading “Follow The Incentive”