Let’s banish ‘catching up’
Oh, hi friends!
Sorry for my delayed response, I’m just catching up on emails.
Haven’t caught up on season three yet, but it’s on my list!!
Totally gonna read that essay, still catching on all my summer reading.
I’m behind on my writing, gotta catch up this weekend.
Why are we always “catching up”?
What are we catching up to? There is no end!
Where you are right now is where you are — and that’s OK.
You’re not catching up on your inbox. You’re answering emails.
You’re not catching up on good TV. You’re watching an episode.
You’re not catching up on reading. You’re reading.
You’re not catching up on writing. You’re writing.
You’re not behind. You are where you are.
Stretching into the weekend like…
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“It’s the same with looking at the stage,” he says. “Knowing what I’m looking for, I can see.”
Good interview with theater director Peter Brook, whose eyesight is failing. But isn’t this always the case? When you actually know what you’re looking for — that’s what you end up seeing.
Here’s Mj Rodriguez and George Salazar singing “Suddenly Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors. Blown. Away.
It’s playing at the Pasadena Playhouse through October 20!! (Tickets here, my California friends.) Jonathan Groff is also headlining another version Little Shop in New York right now — most dates are sold out, but keep your eyes open!
PS — Hi! If you came here from my email tips in this week's New York Times Smarter Living newsletter, welcome! I’m Kara! Like the unstoppable Tim Herrera, I'm interested in cultivating good work and life habits and, well, living smarter. I send this short email every morning as a little pick-me-up touching on work and life and creativity and writing and other stuff, because life is 98% “other stuff.”
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