Your hopes and dreams
Oh, hi friends!
It’s time to remember all my hopes and dreams!
Sometimes I say that as a joke, but I’m not actually joking? At least, I do need a reminder.
A reset.
So that’s where I am today.
Pecking at the keyboard.
Keeping my eyes on one priority at a time.
Remembering I don’t have to do everything today—a single small thing would be progress.
And trusting that I’ll find my way back to the hopes, and the dreams, and any unexpected surprises along the way.
“I think we all want to come back into our old rehearsal rooms, studios, and offices with confidence and gleaming smiles; but for some of us, right now, a half-smile is a more accurate expression of our emotional states. We are learning to be a work in progress together again. Unfinished, masked, and hopeful. As we slowly take our masks off in the coming months, let us be tender with one another. Let us be patient as we relearn the beautiful, and once automatic, act of smiling face to face.”
Remembering to stay patient thanks to this beautiful essay from playwright Sarah Ruhl, whose new book Smile: The Story of a Face chronicles her 10-year ‘medical and metaphysical odyssey’ living with Bell’s palsy.
Makes me want to revisit her excellent collection, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write about life and theater.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara