It’s never too late
Oh, hi friends!
I’m kicking the end of a bad cold so wanted to say two quick things:
Rest if you need rest today (and any day).
If you think it’s too late to begin that project, idea, or change…it’s not.
Maybe now is actually the perfect time to begin.
“One more thing while I’m all aglow: it’s never too late, you’re not too old, it’s NOT over. I’m a degree-free 41-year-old. Last week, an anonymous reader from a theater told me I have no depth. So what? Go after what you want and know you deserve it. Support yourself AND support others. A lot of growth can happen in a short span of time. I don’t care what you do or aspire to…it’s not impossible until you say it is. We’ve had a rough year and half, which continues in so many ways. This is just a reminder that you matter. Your work, voice, light, insight, and perspective matters. There’s room for us all to be our best selves.”
My friend Will Brumley posted this on Facebook yesterday, right after announcing that he was accepted into the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship. We met three years ago in a first draft class at Primary Stages’ ESPA, and I’ve watched him make big moves and lift up others along the way.
And here he is again, lifting up others on the eve of his own major news. Yet another benefit of finding the right spaces in which you can develop your work — you find the people who urge you to reach higher, too.
Keep going.
Sticking with the theme that it’s never too late, my dream performer Lois Smith won her first Tony Award this weekend for her role in The Inheritance. She is 90 years old!!! Here she is:
“I first worked on ‘The Inheritance’ in a workshop where Matthew López was finishing a play about the AIDS plague, and it was partly based on E.M. Forster’s book “Howards End,” which had been my favorite novel for as long as I can remember…E.M. Forster gave us — there’s a famous two-word message from “Howards End,” which is so apt, I think, tonight for all of us who are here celebrating the importance, the functions, of live theater: ‘Only connect.’"
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara