When you can practice anywhere - that’s the great monastery, retreat center which is with you always.
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With you
Friday, October 14th, 2011Frank Langella on Acting (III)
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
The cathartic possibility of the theater needs nothing more than the actor and the stage.
“You can have theater with [the smoke, bells and whistles of modern theatrical productions], but you can’t have the cathartic possibility of theater — that thing that lifts you beyond yourself as an audience member. You really just need the platform and the actor, another piece of humanity, sharing his humanity with the audience.” (From Weekend Edition Saturday, October 8, 2011).
Frank Langella on Acting (II)
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Mean it.
“Don’t open your mouth if you don’t mean every word you’re saying” (From Weekend Edition Saturday, October 8, 2011).
Frank Langella on Acting (I)
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Leap empty-handed into the void.
“It’s the hardest thing to do,” he says. “It takes a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of competence to finally know that if you’ve learned your lines and you understand what they mean and you’re ready to go and you fixed the costume and the light’s OK, you just walk out onstage, and you leap empty-handed into the void, and you see what comes back to you.” (From Weekend Edition Saturday, October 8, 2011).
Try this opener with the next person you meet (and write me to see how it goes)
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
Why don’t we skip the introduction. I want to hear your question, please.
-Marion Rosen
Sweet Advice
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Don’t drink anybody’s Kool-Aid.
But if you do, then drink everybody’s Kool-Aid
as an antidote.
He will be remembered
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Steve Jobs, in remarks made to Stanford graduates in 2005.
It applies to all areas of life, let me tell you
Monday, August 1st, 2011
La peor diligencia es la que no se hace
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Asking for exactly $2 to help wounded soldiers
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
I have signed up for the GoRuck Ascent, an exciting 100-hour adventure where a group of active duty Green Berets, a group of hardcore athletes and yours truly will wear some heavy packs, climb a few 14k peaks in Colorado, run/walk/ruck through some local towns and cities, learn some fun/useful mountaineering, survival, and medical skills, and of course, toss back a few beers around a bonfire.
In preparation for the Ascent, we’re all committed to raising funds for the Green Beret Foundation (GBF), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to helping wounded soldiers from the US Army Special Forces. Regardless of political affiliation we can agree that those who serve deserve our utmost respect and material support, especially when the going gets rough for them. And it is appalling to realize that sometimes that support is not fully there when they need it the most.
I kindly ask for your help in my fundraising efforts for the GBF. In fact, I have made this post with you, my blog reader, in mind. I have pledged to raise $1270 for the foundation, which will be a very easy to reach goal if each of you give, say, $2 . Of course, you can give more if you wish, but any amount, no matter, how small, counts. I’d love to have the support of as many as you as possible and I really am counting on you for this.
It only takes a couple of minutes, and a couple of dollars. Simply go to my Green Beret Foundation fundraising page and follow the directions on the page.
You will know in your heart the amount that feels right to give. And thank you for that amount, regardless of what it is. My gratitude is with you.
Eduardo
