Hot For Clever

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you."Psalm 32:8

A wine before improv class proved to be the creative impetus I needed, maybe that or just good scene partners.
Here's the thing about Improv; there are no certainties. Except, you gotta draw on life.

It was an absolute given that I would date my writing professor in college. I was in uncomfortable love with my Renaissance Literature teacher, but he was married , Midwestern, and Catholic so the pining lust was safely transferred to the more available rule breaker.

Yes, I found it incredibly inspiring to watch him divert his eyes during the lesson on how to build concrete characters knowing I had shared copious pints of frothy Bass with him and laid on his kitchen counter listening to YES albums the night before.

In fact, it reignited the coals I let grow cold in my meandering away from writing, awakening some talent I had not tapped. And after my final fiction short story, the one he told me I didn’t have to write, sat on the edge of his desk, I walked out of class knowing I wouldn’t see him again but would have the fodder to last.

I could use some of that inspiration about now.

"Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life.
Make the white queen run so fast
She hasn’t got time to make you a wife.
’cause it’s time, it’s time in time
With your time and it’s news is captured
For the queen to use.
Move me on to any black square,
Use me any time you want,
Just remember that the gold
is for us to capture all we want, anywhere."Yes


Can you ever have TOO much experience?

They Call It Progress

"This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 2:3-5

East Village Soul churning out the Book of Truth...>>

Ah, but we digress.

Not An Easy Road

" Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need.

Practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil.

Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay, says the Lord. On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:9-21

Five months ago, sitting at a crowded table in the middle of Katz's Delicatessen, my baby brother asked me for a Sharpie so he could tag his life verse on the subway walls, and show New Yorkers just what a Christian walk should look like.

I didn't. So he had it permanently written on his arm. And then joined the US Army.

Tonight I read it scribbled on the wall of his empty bedroom.

Hootenanny Y'all

"Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious." Psalm 66:2

And that's just what my Robinson Boys from Atlanta did...sang about the glory of the Lord in almost every one of their songs.

Poor Elijah

Garden Gate

Wiser Time

Thorn in my Pride

She Gave Good Sunflower

How Much for Your Wings?

She's Talks to Angels

Remedy

Halfway to Everywhere

Can I get an AMEN for two sets of worship and the soul of the mouth harp?

You Dopes

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE...>>

180 Degrees=A Better View

“This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here." Zechariah 3:7

Restoring Sanity and Control.

Thank goodness.

What do I love about America? The fact that its people want to stay America.

And we have a say.

Here's to honoring freedom and God blessing our country.

Let's celebrate.

Anyone for tea?

Checks and Balances

The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. Proverbs 21:5

Sure signs 20th Century Fox is not feeling the effects of the recession...

1. Obtained movie rights for the 1938 children's book, Mr Popper Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater.

2. Casted Jim Carey as the lead.

3 Built huge winter scene with arctic temperatures at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.

4. Imported surly penguins and their trainers.

5. Brought in Visual Effects to computer generate additional dancing penguins.

6. Employed Teamsters to drive luxury 15 passenger vans to and fro from subway station on the hour.

7. Fitted one of many actresses (me) in floor length designer gowns, furs, and diamonds before deciding on the royal purple Ralph Lauren silk number with 4 inch Christian Louboutin heels.

8. Rented the Guggenheim for three consecutive days for one Gala scene in the middle of holiday season.

9. Hired Non Union and paid Union Wages.

10. Served full size candy bars and Gruyere grilled cheese at Craft Services.

Now, who needs tax credits??