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“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.”— Nina Simone — Hello, and my very best to you and yours. Here are 3 things I've been thinking about over the last few days that I'm excited to share with you. *** on refusing to bendI stumbled across a short clip from a 1968 interview with legendary-everything, Nina Simone. It hit me hard. She was asked what the word freedom meant to her. Here's her response — “I’ll tell you what freedom means to me: no fear. I...
“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”— Mark Twain — Hello, and my very best to you and yours. Here are 3 things I've been thinking about over the last few days that I'm excited to share with you. *** on the importance of sinking into your workDaniel Day-Lewis isn’t just one of my favorite actors, but he’s also one of my favorite thinkers. His takes on doing work that matters are gold. This is especially true of the following passage: “As actors, we’re encouraged to see...
“Boredom is the conviction that you can't change... the shriek of unused capacities.”— Saul Bellow — Hello, and my very best to you and yours. Here are 3 things I've been thinking about over the last few days that I'm excited to share with you. *** on getting on the busMy wife was talking to her sister about the point in my previous newsletter regarding the recent blackout in Spain and how the people in my town responded. Upon hearing about it, my sister-in-law told a story about her son...