Gillian Anderson will make everything better
Oh, hi friends!
Changes in routine can make clear just how related our routines are.
You start working from home, which means you don’t order or go out to lunch, which means those restaurants lose business, which means those employees lose tips.
You go to fewer events, which means theater companies or musicians lose their support, which means less money for them, which means harder decisions in what stays open or closed or greenlit in the future.
You travel less or cook more or socialize less or feel stressed, which leads to...dominoes.
If you can’t rely on routine right now, take a cue from what your routines can teach you.
Everything is connected.
And you can find connection in other ways — call, text, FaceTime your friends and family and small business owners who might need a kind word. Write letters. Focus on a little project. Do your best.
You can carve out a new routine — and more connection — before returning to your old ways.
"You can go two routes as you get older — you can start to get bitter or you can start to get more Zen… I’m in the contemplative part of my life."
I loved this profile of Jane Alexander, who recently wrapped Grand Horizons on Broadway. She’s an avid birder; maybe that helps with the Zen? (I also liked reading the detail that playwright Bess Wohl rewrites well into previews: “minutiae — a pronoun, an adjective.” Yes!)
A Reminder of Joy
Here is queen Gillian Anderson reading a letter that Helen Keller wrote describing her joy at “listening” to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
“When the human voices leaped up thrilling from the surge of harmony, I recognized them instantly as voices more ecstatic, upcurving swift and flame-like, until my heart almost stood still.”
And here you can read the letter.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara