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The solace of circumstance

03/03/2017 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

The solace of circumstance

Hey, hey, hey. Last night I went to the Raven Theatre to see The Assembled Parties, a play written by Richard Greenberg (directed by Cody Estle). It’s about relationships over time. In Notes from the Dramaturg, I found a paragraph that had to do with solace, which I will share with you. Here’s what Stephen Johnson, the dramaturg, wrote: “As time wreaks havoc on our dreams we have no choice but to adjust our dreams to take account of the reality of our history. And … [Read more...]

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Václav Havel, from Disturbing the Peace

01/14/2017 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Václav Havel, from Disturbing the Peace

Way back in November, my friend Beth shared this quote with me. I finally remembered to look it up and share it with you. Between 1985 and 1986 Václav Havel did a number of interviews with the Czech journalist Karel Hvížd’ala. The resulting book was called Long-Distance Interrogation; when it was published in English in 1990,  it was titled Disturbing the Peace. From Disturbing the Peace: . . . [T]he kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are … [Read more...]

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Slice of Solace: Edward Hirsch

06/30/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

“Implicit in poetry is the notion that we are deepened by heartbreaks, that we are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish---to let others vanish—without leaving a verbal record.” Edward Hirsch     I came across this quote yesterday when a FB friend posted it. I think it comes from "Poetry, Prayer, and Process: Edward Hirsch and Rachel Eliza Griffiths In Conversation" posted June 26, 2014 on the Academy of American Poets site. … [Read more...]

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Slice of Solace: Scott Turow

07/21/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

“I mean look, what are we here for? To love people and help them. That about sums it up, right? To love and be loved and to be helpful to humanity in general.”   Scott Turow, as quoted in “Scott Turow gets personal: The unsolved North Shore murder behind new book, his fight with Amazon” by Robert K. Elder in Evanston Review … [Read more...]

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Slice of Solace: Seth Godin

06/19/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

“But it is possible to become important to a very-small everyone, to a connected tribe that cares about this voice or that story or this particular point of view. It's still possible to become meaningful, meaningful if you don't get short-term greedy about any particular moment of mass, betting on the long run instead.”     By Seth Godin is his June 18, 2014 post “In Search of Meaningful” … [Read more...]

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