You can do it. But do you want it?
Oh, hi friends!
My friend Jane said something brilliant yesterday. (Basically I just want to live inside my friends’ brains.)
“Can and want are two separate issues.”
Because you can do almost anything.
But do you want to do it?
I run into this problem, oh, 14 times a day.
You can choose to apply to that job. Take that gig. Say yes. Say no.
Sifting is the hard part. Clarity is the hard part.
Deciding what you want is the hard part.
Thanks, dear Jane, for the reminder.
Unfollowing everyone on every platform because actor Joshua Henry has the only voice I want to hear.
The Beginning of a Story You Should Read to the End
From “Lesley Manville Has Waited Long Enough”
Mary Tyrone casts a long shadow over “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” while she’s onstage, and while she’s not. For much of the second act, this morphine-addicted mother haunts her husband and sons with her absence. They know that once she disappears up the stairs of their ramshackle summerhouse, she is finding a vein, getting a fix and slipping away. Meanwhile, as soon as Mary steps offstage, the actress Lesley Manville has shaken off the character and started taking care of business. She spends her long break, before returning for Mary’s final dope-fueled monologue, getting her own life in order: taking a shower, doing a bit of sewing, answering emails.
“I hope that doesn’t destroy the illusion,” Ms. Manville told me the morning after her American debut in the Eugene O’Neill play, which has arrived in New York after runs in London and Bristol… [continue reading] *** She answers her emails in the middle of performing in a four-hour play. Hero.
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Love, Kara