Another opening night tonight. Enchanted April, at Taproot Theatre, opens tonight at 8:00 p.m. It’s been a good process, a nice re-entry back into the world of acting after a two year hiatus. My role is small, but has enough in it to make it challenging, and I’m pretty sure I’m not really hitting the [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 23, 2009
A Reputation for a “Yes Face”
This was a question we asked at church on Sunday. It’s a different way to phrase the old question of legacy: what do you want to be remembered for? What heritage do you want to leave your kids? After all is said and done, what will your legacy be? One man had a fascinating answer [...]
September 22, 2009
Notes from a September Week
So I took a week off from blogging. It was full week, as they all are. Rehearsals for Enchanted April (Taproot Theatre, opening this Friday) continue to go well. I will, of course, be terrified as we move through opening weekend…I always am the first few times around with an audience. But that will pass, [...]
September 15, 2009
Reluctantly Asking the Health-Care Questions
Here’s a question: what does Beauty have to do with the health-care debate? I’m not much of a political animal. Whether that’s a badge of honor or shame depends on who you talk to, but it’s getting harder to avoid getting drawn into the “debates” (read mud-slinging) about health-care, economics, race, and other areas of [...]
September 14, 2009
Watching My Friends Work
Last Friday night, Greenwood held it’s monthly 2nd Friday artwalk. As part of that event, Taproot Theatre staged its own entry: the making of a portrait. The artist was my good friend Sam Vance, and his subject was another good friend, Nikki Visel. The impetus for this was a scene from Taproot Theatre’s next offering, [...]
September 11, 2009
Kierkegaard’s Eleventh Hour
Reading Kierkegaard this morning. Went to bed too late to be up comprehending Kierkegaard, but the great phrase “to will one thing” is on my mind. So I’m reading the online version of Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing, and am stopped at the 2nd chapter. Kierkegaard says remorse always comes [...]
September 10, 2009
Abandoned Churches
Here’s a fascinating exercise: go to WebUrbanist and ponder these abandoned churches. Truly beautiful buildings that were once opened with hope, worship, and vitality. Places built to honor God (and perhaps demonstrate power and wealth of some kind) and therefore places where now unknown people felt awe, transparency, conviction, and the power of divinity. Now [...]
September 9, 2009
Hanging with the Divine
Imagine. Talking to God. Prayer is another of those funny English words that stand symbol for all kinds of experiences. Wikipedia has that it enters the English language in the late 13th C, from French and Latin words built on the ideas of entreaty, request, and simple asking. And when the folks I know talk [...]
September 7, 2009
Soul
So the new preacher started yesterday in rousing fashion, his lesson centered in the ancient Jewish commandment which is the centerpiece of the Torah, and reaffirmed years later by Jesus as the most important commandment. “Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord Your God with all [...]
September 5, 2009
Anybody Know How to Hear God?
Say there was a character who decided he was going to hear a definitive word from God or be damned trying. He saunters along in the jazzy rain, barely noticing the rain noodling in through the holes in his jeans, too lost in an imminently practical and frustrating question: how to hear from God? He [...]
