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Mosaic Moment: A Super-Secret-Bonus-Track
Brains are pretty amazing. Last Saturday, I spent the morning and afternoon updating my play, Paris is Dead. I made a lot of changes in the grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. I also found a new, illuminating, and crucial event in the final moments of the third act. For some, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure […]
A Mandala Moment: My Given Circumstances
April 30, 2009
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. – T. S. Eliot I am currently appearing in Personare-BearAmI Productions’ Now Birds Sing, from April 29 – May 3, 2009, at The Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre Studio. For more details, click here. We […]
Sunlight, A Play in One Act
December 6, 2008
Sunlight combines text, improvisation, a dumbshow, and movement in order to craft an original and unexpected response to a reality we face each and everyday: the minute-by-minute choice between a life of distraction and a life of attentiveness. Although it is very much a work of theatre, it can also be described as a kind […]
What should I do with my life? A plausible answer.
November 26, 2008
Poverty is one of the primary causes of suffering. So, 1) I will pursue an end which allows me to accumulate wealth and I will transfer some of it to a person living in poverty and/or to a person or organization working to eliminate poverty. The end I pursue will not itself directly contribute to […]
The Ascension (Revised)
November 26, 2008
Life on our planet owes its existence to a middle-aged sun which receives nothing in return for its accidental gift. Perhaps, one day, our species—or some other species—will discover a means to keep the aged sun’s fading light forever stoked and, in this way, repay life’s extraordinary debt. The sun’s debt to gravity, I fear, […]
An Account of Life & Recommendations for Living
November 26, 2008
Preface In what follows, I offer an account of life and some recommendations for living. No necessary relationship exists between the account and the recommendations. A person can accept the account and not the recommendations, accept the recommendations and not the account, or accept elements of both. Nothing in this account or its recommendations is […]
March 15, 2010
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