Gonna make this quick!
Oh, hi friends!
Think small, live small.
Think big, live big.
Through his mid-twenties, Willems performed standup comedy, wrote for television, drew comics, rode a motorcycle through the streets of New York, rolled his own cigarettes, and had a girlfriend with whom he spoke French. Many young men in such circumstances would feel triumphant. But Amy Donaldson, a friend from Willems’s childhood, told me, “He was maybe twenty-five years old, and we were in a café late at night, and he was telling me that he was totally washed up, that he had failed, that it was over for him.”
Mo Willems has written and illustrated dozens of bestselling children’s books. I’d never heard of him until my Aunt Gina and I came across his original artwork at a gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts. I loved reading about his eclectic past. You never know how things will add up.
My talented actor + editor friend Carl Zurhorst made this lovely reel for his talented friend Whitney Hickman. Made me wanna dance. And that never happens! Need to get something on film? Hit him up at carlzurhorst@me.com.
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Love, Kara