Finding your intention

Oh, hi friends!

What is the most important intention in your life right now?

Do you know?

Maybe let’s all take a second to think it over.

I had a 15-minute conversation about coffee making with a friend at work last week. The devices, the beans, the timing. I was talking so passionately that I thought…I should probably write a monologue about it! This is a new effort to clock what is naturally interesting to me and then work from that place. First stop: Coffee. Coffeecoffeecoffee.

“The truth is, we can't really tell as much as we would like about the stuff we write. We may think it's no good and it turns out to be wonderful. Or we think it's wonderful, and it's no good. So we simply have to cast away the safety net and write what we believe in.”

Arthur Kopit wrote a play in college that he thought was no good. It ended up being mounted on Broadway. Ya never know. Loved his interview in the excellent book What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing. (h/t Plato fan)

“Another Hundred People” from Company
This is one of my favorite songs for a commute.

Another hundred people just got off the train
and came up through the ground
While another hundred people just got off of the bus
and are looking around
at another hundred people who got off of the plane
and are looking at us
who got off of the train and the plane and the bus
maybe yesterday
 
It's a city of strangers
some come to work, some to play
It's a city of strangers
some come to stare, some to stay
and every day
the ones who stay
 
Can find each other in the crowded streets and the guarded parks
by the rusty fountains and the dusty trees with the battered barks
And they walk together past the postered walls with the crude remarks
And they meet at parties through the friends-of-friends who they never know
Will you pick me up or do I meet you there? Shall we let it go?
Did you get my message? 'Cause I looked in vain
Can we see each other Tuesday if it doesn't rain?
Look, I'll call you in the morning or my service'll explain
 
And another hundred people just got off of the train

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Thanks, as always, for reading.

Love, Kara