Life is a Novel, Part II

Here is a thought to keep in front of you the next time you read a book, watch a movie, or engage some other work of human creativity. In Michael Malone's Foolscap, or, The Stages of Love, a group of actors waited in the wings: "Sweets, the former child star, and Catherine, the former soaps star; all the former stars, now forgotten, and all the company of players who were never to be stars, all of them banded together waiting to go act out life so that people seeing their show could learn--or remember--how life feels."

If in living life you have forgotten how it feels or how to feel it, let the artists help you remember. Read a novel. Go to a play. Slow down enough to digest some poetry. Engage the words and the stories--not to escape from life, but to embrace it.

Bob

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