Appreciating a dream deferred
Oh, hi friends!
How many dreams have you had to defer lately?
Classes, graduations, promotions, productions.
We wait, we mourn, we reschedule.
Tonight Letters From May, the 10-minute musical I wrote last year with Kris Bjarke, was supposed to premiere at the Sound Bites Musical Festival at Merkin Hall on the Upper West Side.
It’s been rescheduled for the fall, but there’s still something about seeing it on my Google Calendar. The reminder of an alternate present.
But maybe that’s a gift in itself.
Knowing what could have been makes you more excited for the day it actually arrives.
“The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only — which is the biggest only — teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.”
From Broadway director and producer Hal Prince. I love this idea. Less about success and more about the future.
There’s an entire PBS Great Performances special about Hal’s life; we watched it last weekend over brunch with corned beef hash, and I think it’d be inspiring for anyone with interest in a creative field.
The episode is streaming online at PBS. (Bring your own corned beef.)
Travel travel is one of my favorite ways to get around. This dreamy, illustrated video takes me back to my two cross-country train trips, traveling south in Portugal, going up to Montreal, and much more. Perfect work background music.
PS — If you need help focusing in the morning, please join me and my brother Eric at the 10:11 Club — every weekday morning at 10:11am ET (or whatever time zone you're in!), we're starting our day together and working toward one goal until noon. See you there!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara