How to keep going and going
Oh, hi friends!
We’re always looking for green lights.
Please send me your ideas, I’ve love to hear them.
Let’s work on this! Are you free on Wednesday at 3?
This is brilliant! What else you got?
Green lights — aka permission from other people, entities, or organizations telling you it’s OK to move forward — give us reassurance, built-in feedback, and a kind of solace that you’re on the right track.
But of course, waiting for green lights comes with disadvantages, too.
Namely…you wait.
You wait for a response. You wait to be sought out. You wait for acceptance.
What if instead of searching for these green lights, we checked our own speed limit?
(I’ll admit that when I’m waiting to hear back about something, my average speed drifts down to 5 MPH.)
Yet when you’re not constantly looking at what’s ahead, and instead monitoring where you are right now, you somehow keep moving.
You keep going, regardless of the green lights.
Set your own speed — and get to where you need to go.
“How can you practice today?”
Love this question inspired by my morning run with my friend Aransas. (I’m going to practice by simply…writing. Not reading about writing or thinking about writing, but putting down a few pages and not judging them in the moment. It's practice!)
A Mini Musical for You
Here it is! I mentioned this last year as we worked on it, but Letters From May, the 10-minute musical I wrote with composer Kristoffer Bjarke, is now up on YouTube! We were accepted into the Sound Bites Musical Festival last year (which was postponed, of course) and then were able to make this digital version with some of my favorite people in the world, including brother Eric Cotti, Gina Cutruzzula, Susannah Jones, Ezioma Asonye, and Kade Morrill.
What does it mean to make art today? And what do you have to leave behind?
We speed through six decades in 10 minutes trying to answer that question. It's over yonder. Please share with anyone you feel might enjoy it!
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Love, Kara