Using what you have
Oh, hi friends!
Where do you do your best work?
We toured the university campus yesterday to see the spaces we can write and rehearse our musicals during this residency. Gardens! Libraries! Little nooks!
It’s a luxury to have space to create, but I was also reminded of all the times I have *not* had ideal conditions.
Writing a few lines on the subway was often my ‘creative time’ before work or I’d walk on the High Line during lunch and scribble notes. But those periods were useful and instructive. Whatever I wrote then still has value, too.
Because sometimes you get the tiny vestibule. Other times you get the comforting rehearsal room. Or the giant stage.
But more often what you get is the same corner where your laptop is parked right now, or the walls that you’re used to seeing every day — and those are, in fact, a lot. Even if they’re the same day after day, they are something.
We can use what we have, while we’re lucky enough to have it.
“Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
—Maya Angelou
One of the buildings here at the Christopher Newport University campus features quotes inscribed on its walls. These were two of the quotes. It made me wonder…what words would you want to see every day? (And you could grab a Sharpie and head toward your nearest wall…just saying…!)
“Laughing ostrich” lol photo by Fabian Keller on Unsplash
Do You Need a Laugh?
Sadly I'm out of town for this, but my very funny friend Jon Fisch is recording a comedy album in New York on Wednesday, July 14 at Gotham Comedy Club. Come, drink, laugh! If you'd like to attend, just let me know today and I'll hook you up with some tickets...you deserve a fun night out, ya know??
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Love, Kara