a pile of thoughts.

-As one who delights in physical theatre, I've read a bunch of theorists and practitioners who have their own systems of how best to rehearse and execute such performance. Things like Laban Movement Analysis, Alexander technique, Williamson technique, Margolis method, that sort of thing. When you read one right after the other, you find that they're all very similar, just establishing different vocabularies for mind-body connections. My plan is to make a big table of all of them so I can break them down more easily and understand them. There will also be a column labeled "crap?" with a yes or a no for each one to save time.

The thing that strikes me is that all the spirituality I've been pursuing lately- things like meditation, chakra work, taoism, quakerism- have all had similar philosophies of finding a mind-body connection. It puts the spiritual energy and focus that one pursues in studying faith into one's own body rather than out into the universe or in past civilizations and stories. Gives me all sorts of fun ideas for where to take my performance. And my spirituality for that matter.

Also I went to an audition/workshop for a movement-mask-puppetry theatre company a few weeks ago and the guy leading it led us in a few exercises using the Del Sarte system. I thought it was one of those methods you learn about as a past example because you work in that field, I've never seen anyone actually use it. Most exciting.

-I think the best things lately have been reveling in the bigness and the smallness of everything.

-Have you ever watched a candle put itself out? Just sat and waited for the wick to run out and the flame to disappear? You feel a little dirty, like you just witnessed something really private that you weren't supposed to. or....that's how I feel anyway.

-Good teas are expensive. But usually totally worth it.