“Transformation is Possible”

My coaching assignment from three weeks ago was to reflect on what I'd like people to say about me when I die. My report on that reflection is due today, and frankly, though I've put a good bit of time into thinking about it, I don't have it done.  It's a funny question, more troublesome …

Water: Exhaustive vs. Substantial

Water.  What do I know of it?  Do I know much?  Is what I know enough to thought of as real knowledge?   And what are the implications of me not knowing as much as can be known?  Can a simple glass of water give me true knowledge about water's nature? It's an image that came …

Making Worlds

We encounter the world through our senses.   Light hits the eye’s photoreceptors and the optical information starts its split-second journey toward the visual cortex in the occipital lobe, then on to the frontal cortex, and perception begins.   Same with sound, smell, taste, and touch; the various systems involved in each leap into action as stimuli …

Opening Enchanted April

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 …

Words When There Aren’t Any

I slept an hour later than usual this morning, two hours later than the mornings when I get up to hit the gym at 5.  As a result I'm sitting here dead-headed, without much to say.  So I'm reading an article on whether or not we plagarize consciously or unconsciously, and does it matter?  Quite …