Ooooh, let’s kick off Monday
Oh, hi friends!
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That’s me patting you on the back for all the things you’ve done lately. Last week. Over the weekend. Maybe even this morning.
Because this month is moving fast and I want to stop for all of six seconds to say:
It’s OK.
You’re doing great.
Just keep swimming.
May your Monday be as happy as this dolphin's face.
Photo by Fabrizio Frigeni on Unsplash
Stephen Sondheim on his first teacher in college…
“ ...everybody hated him because he was very dry, and I thought he was wonderful because he was very dry. And Barrow made me realize that all my romantic views of art were nonsense. I had always thought an angel came down and sat on your shoulder and whispered in your ear 'dah-dah-dah-DUM.'
Never occurred to me that art was something worked out. And suddenly it was skies opening up.
As soon as you find out what a leading tone is, you think, Oh my God. What a diatonic scale is – Oh my God! The logic of it.
And, of course, what that meant to me was: Well, I can do that. Because you just don't know. You think it's a talent, you think you're born with this thing. What I've found out and what I believed is that everybody is talented. It's just that some people get it developed and some don’t.”
Oh look, here’s someone others call a genius who says…art is really just something worked out. (h/t Vaquita)
Have you watched Billy on the Street? Comedian Billy Eichner runs around the streets of New York with celebrities and, um, screams in people’s faces. It’s hilarious and gives me so much joy. Watch him and Lin-Manuel Miranda ask people if they’re happy. I am cackling. (~5 mins)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara