Pearls from The Rooms:
1. I use the long spoon in my life now. I can’t use it to feed myself – it’s too long, when I hold it in my hand my mouth can’t reach it. I can only use it to feed others.
This is true of acting: we must feed others - our scene partners, our audience. It’s true of ministry: it’s only ministry if we use the long spoon.
2. Cole Porter was a genius because he wrote the continually surprising refrain.
And this is what great theatre is made of. It’s a refrain, in that it repeats, but in an appropriate paradox, the memorable stuff is surprising. This what great Quaker meetings are too, a continually surprising refrain.
3. We live life in three dimensions, but recovery rockets you into a fourth dimension, which is spiritual.
I take these pearls, and put them on the necklace of my life. They nest on the string, next to the rough pebbles, the tacky doo-dads and the balls of dust. Altogether, this necklace is to be celebrated. All together. I wonder what it will look like after I’m dead, and it’s finished.
