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calling attention to emptiness

i am noticing a disturbing trend. i notice that when i do not write anything new on my blog, i have no readership. this is really distressing because of days like yesterday when i literally had nothing new to say. … Continue reading

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leaving

i’m starting to feel it again. winter is leaving. winter is leaving me again. o winter, how i pine for you to stay. if only you knew. is there anything i can do to convince to change your mind? it’s … Continue reading

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who knows?

who knows what to think of anything? that is my question for the day. i will await your answer. until then… fondly yours, TLP

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out of nowhere

this playwright friend texted me that she really wanted me to see her new play which ran this weekend, adding that she was almost embarrassed to admit just how much she wanted me to see it. i wasn’t expecting that. … Continue reading

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the worst

i’m wondering if i can get your permission to make more mistakes without judging them to be mistakes. or would i need your permission? i’m assuming it will ok. but so very often, my assumptions are wrong. i’m not really … Continue reading

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Mit wechselnden Händen

I’ve started reading Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann because my favorite music critic seems to write about it frequently, which piqued my curiosity. The first 27 pages have not quite grabbed me…  which may partially be because I tend to only read … Continue reading

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practice

i feel sort of bad that i have not been writing that much of late. but then i remind myself that writing does not have to use language. i have no idea what i just meant. what i think i … Continue reading

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February 1

another indescribably beautiful day of snow. i savored every fleeting second. walking in it. driving through it. letting it fall upon me.  talking for 2 hours with anthropology graduate student who was interviewing me, asking me to describe my experience … Continue reading

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falling in reverse slow motion

at one point, i turned away from my computer screen, and there through the window was snow, and i awakened at 3:00 in the afternoon. if my intellect did not tell me this was snow, i would have thought it … Continue reading

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pretend harder

i’ve been trying to figure out why i am so bad at work or work-related presentations–and why they feel so different than performing. is it because i feel like i am being scrutinized and judged based upon criteria that have … Continue reading

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June 20, 1961

anonymity is humility: it does not lie in the change of name, cloth or the identification with that which may be anonymous, an ideal, a heroic act, country, and so on. Anonymity is an act of the brain, the conscious … Continue reading

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tempatations

some have said that nights are not meant to be colder than this one. i would not argue. if only it were accompanied by a blizzard. an arctic blast without a blizzard is an empty gesture. a bone chilling gesture, … Continue reading

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possibly something

this may possibly become something else, but I’m not quite sure it’s there yet. some people on the radio tonight were talking about the differences between courage and fearlessness. Since I was listening while driving across the continent, I only picked … Continue reading

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My Subaru

for the past 2 nights, i’ve gone to see this company adapt the first 5 minutes of one of my performances from over 20 years ago–part of an entire production consisting of 9 beginnings of 9 performances by 9 different … Continue reading

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page 236

i just finished reading The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, which i didn’t think i would like at first because the first few chapters had that cute/clever feel that turns me off of so much contemporary American fiction, and leads … Continue reading

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