Last-minute invite
Oh, hi friends!
My friend Durra posted that he had an extra ticket to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight. The big guest (after Jessica Chastain)? Stephen Sondheim!
YES. Of course I want to go!
But I also had to quickly figure out if I could finish my work by 4:30. What will I have to give up for three hours spent at the theater?
And I realized…there won’t be a sacrifice. There will be a condensing and quickening and sense of purpose before I need to be out the door.
That’s what always happens.
It will all get done. Too much time isn’t always the answer.
“See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning, when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I’m going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do, which is write—on that bankrupt morning, I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest. Paid passage back to the world out there.”
Not sure how I missed this a few years ago, but recently watched the Joan Didion documentary The Center Will Not Hold. A beautiful look at process, life, and loss. (On Netflix, of course.) She shared this quote, from her book of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem, which is inspiration to write it all down, even on days you don’t want to.
This is the best use of interactive storytelling I’ve seen in years. Even if you’re not terribly interested in 16th century Italian paintings, it’s helpful to see how engaging text and the use of zoom (not that kind of Zoom) can illuminate every corner of a piece of art. You can't stop scrolling. Detail, detail, detail!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara