Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
-Kahlil Gibran
Success is meaningless if you can’t sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a ‘friendship.’
-Margaret Cho
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.
-Tupac Shakur
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988)
There is this paradox in pride – it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
C. C. Colton
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
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8:15am
I like that my iPhone lets me post to LiveJournal without getting out of bed. 🙂 (“Back when I was a kid, we had to WALK to our giant desktop computers to post things on the world wide web! Uphill both ways!”)
The house is quiet. After a busy Friday and Saturday, everyone is sleeping in this morning. Soon… breakfast. Question is, do I get up and make everyone bacon and eggs, or wake them up and go out to Big Boy or the Coney Island for breakfast? Hmm… Maybe I’ll post that question to the kids.
A good weekend so far. “Mars” Opening Night was great, very well received by audiences and critics so far. Then yesterday I cleared the driveway again (the snow just keeps coming!), and took Maggie to see “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” which is touring the country, and came to The Whiting Theatre in Flint. The show stars two former Otterbein students that I worked with last year -Liz Shivener and Steve Czarnecki- they were both fabulous! Maggie was thrilled to meet them after, and a little starstruck! (“They were really good! And she’s so pretty! Thanks Dad!”). We had a great time.
Now, I hear the sounds of kids waking up – I think Sunday is underway. Just in time, I’m starved!
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
(1694 – 1773)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
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(Ooh, check out the lens flares in that photo. I’m like JJ Abrams! – minus the giant bank account)
This pic was taken of the set for THE SMELL OF THE KILL as I sat in the theatre with the worklights on. It looks good here, and with the stage lights on, it looks fantastic. The whole production team is doing some great work, onstage and off.
Tonight is first preview – I can’t wait!
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams
US social worker, sociologist, & suffragist (1860 – 1935)
It’s truly a pleasure to find yourself working in the company of people who conduct themselves like professionals. People who do their jobs and, appreciatively, allow others to do their jobs.
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
There’s a real joy in working with people who bring a light into the room, and who work to share it while encouraging others to shine also. You hear the joke often about how someone should “use their powers for good, and not evil”. Well, the simple truth is that we all really do have that power in our every day lives. In any situation we can contribute, and add to the positive energy in the room, or we can choose to be a negative force on the people around us. Sowing divisiveness, mistrust and disrespect is no way to go through life. And it’s no way to behave in a creative environment: the work will grow if people are allowed to feel cared for, if they feel they can take risks without fear of retribution. If they’re made to feel the opposite, the work will suffer.
I’m going to take a second, here, to encourage everyone to seek out positive work environments. Seek them out, create them, nurture them! Lead the way, lead by example, and make a difference in the world!
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Thomas H. Huxley
English biologist (1825 – 1895)
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. -William Shakespeare, “Merchant of Venice”
“Bitter Tony’s Rye Bitter”, the best beer around, has returned to Grizzly Peak in Ann Arbor!
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Tony Caselli 