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Been a good day, long couple of days. From rehearsal to meetings to scriptwriting to business-doing to brainstorming to rehearsal again. I also did my laundry AND had my flat tire fixed. I am feeling very productive.

Last Thursday, Claytie and I had a wonderful (if somewhat boozy) brainstorming session about how to live life as a theatre producer. We came up with these notes to live by. They…er. They all seemed somewhat more profound after a couple of screwdrivers. I recommend consuming some vodka before meditating on them.

Ahem:
“Oh look! More life.”

-embrace the stress (i.e. “Oh look! More life.”)
-being proven wrong is a GREAT experience (”Oh look! More life.”)
-never hate ‘those people’ (”Oh look! More life.”)
-always just setting a foot down on the path of the next thing (”Oh look! More life.”)
-zooming out helps you find the path again, around the obstacles (”Oh look! More life.”)
-dreaming is necessary. doing is necessary. (”Oh look!…” …actually it doesn’t work as well with that last one)

In other inspiration news: David sent me this quote today via his apparently awesome friend Cary. It is kind of perversely reassuring.

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly to keep the channel open. You do not have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever, at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

-Martha Graham to Agnes di Mille in “Dance to the Piper”

Since I just saw the Martha Graham Dance Company with David on Saturday night (they were awewewewesum, by the way) the timing was nice. She was a crazy smart lady, that Martha.

xoxo
Oh look! More love!
Alissa