I recently read a New York Times article about a Tony award winning playwright/performer , Sarah Jones, who recently received a commission from the Lincoln Center to develop an unspecified show. She has no idea what it will be about or what she will create, yet the clock is ticking to create it. Her specialty is to scour the city streets of New York City in search of people who represent "cultural fault lines that unite and divide the city" and to pluck these characters ripe for her own inspriration.
Although I am not a playwright, a performer, nor a New Yorker, I do have a few things in common with Ms. Jones.
- I have been given a commission from the universe to create the life of my dreams, and have also been gifted the backdrop of Paris.
- I search the city for inspiration and find myself eavesdropping on conversations in languages that I don't totally understand, peering in apartment windows at dusk to imagine the life within it, chameleon-ing myself to whomever I am interacting with out of authenticity in the moment.
- I don't know what my story will be, but I go in search of it and trust that it is unfolding exactly as it should. To be doing it in Paris at this moment gives me the peace of mind that I am in the right place for right now.
- Sarah Jones, Unlicensed anthropologist, an explorer of the cultural fault lines that unite and divide the city, Tony award winning performer and playwright
Click here to read the entire NYTimes article--Sarah Jones, Scouting the City for Her Characters.
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There was a line in the book Eat Pray Love that resonated with me. To paraphrase it was " you are exactly where you are meant to be right now." I think sometimes we're too caught up in events of the past or anticipating something in the future that we miss the life we're living right now!
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