…but I really like this, so I’m sharing it. Tomorrow I have to begin teaching at Eastern Michigan University. Producing Theatre, which will be fun, and informative, and useful for the students, and blah blah blah, but if there’s one thing about this business that I hope to send them away with, it’s this: Don’t Be Afraid.

Nelson Mandela said it well:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask oursleves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our prescence automatically liberates others.”