March 8 – Work!
Today’s joy is brought to you by: work! I can say more when it airs. Suffice to say, there’s no joy like play.
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Where Are You Going?
This past June I attended Don Miller’s Storyline Conference in Santa Barbara. I knew it was going to be inspiring. I didn’t know it was going to hurt. I’ve done okay as an actor and writer: worked on some movies, wrote a book. I’m long overdue for getting another book out into the world; and I’ve had a few ideas. But something has stopped me from doing those other things. A show. Before Angry Conversations…
If a True Formula = Beautiful, Does a Beautiful Story = Formula?
Several years ago I attended Socrates in The City, a literary salon hosted by author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer, Amazing Grace) and featuring many great Christian thinkers. The guest that evening was Rev. John Polkinghorne, a British theologian and physicist who was knighted for his role in discovering the quark. Talk about physics and my eyes glaze over, but Polkinghorne said something that stuck with me: When an equation is correct, mathematicians call it ‘beautiful.’ A…
Love Wash Over A Multitude Of Things
One afternoon I got a notice from the post office that I had three parcels waiting for me. I had been expecting a script, but not a parcel. I drove to the post office to pick them up. They were boxes from my sister. I recognized them: It was my mother’s crystal. When my mother had a stroke and developed dementia, she moved in with my sister. My sister got the dining room set, my…
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Where Are You Going?
This past June I attended Don Miller’s Storyline Conference in Santa Barbara. I knew it was going to be inspiring. I didn’t know it was going to hurt. I’ve done okay as an actor and writer: worked on some movies, wrote a book. I’m long overdue for getting another book out into the world; and I’ve had a few ideas. But something has stopped me from doing those other things. A show. Before Angry Conversations…
If a True Formula = Beautiful, Does a Beautiful Story = Formula?
Several years ago I attended Socrates in The City, a literary salon hosted by author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer, Amazing Grace) and featuring many great Christian thinkers. The guest that evening was Rev. John Polkinghorne, a British theologian and physicist who was knighted for his role in discovering the quark. Talk about physics and my eyes glaze over, but Polkinghorne said something that stuck with me: When an equation is correct, mathematicians call it ‘beautiful.’ A…
Love Wash Over A Multitude Of Things
One afternoon I got a notice from the post office that I had three parcels waiting for me. I had been expecting a script, but not a parcel. I drove to the post office to pick them up. They were boxes from my sister. I recognized them: It was my mother’s crystal. When my mother had a stroke and developed dementia, she moved in with my sister. My sister got the dining room set, my…