“I’m having a conversation with my audience, and we’ll both be dead by the time we’re done.”

The title quote from Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen “The Boss”
American Songwriter, Performer, Rock & Roll Star
(September 23, 1949 – )

“Speeches” are a bit more declarative.  Plays more dominated by the script.  Presentations more work and outcome focused.  But all are at their best when

“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”

The Inquisition – 1799. Anonymous tribunals were determining guilt and issuing death sentences against people harboring unacceptable beliefs. Reason slept. Goya, the King’s painter,

Baby Steps

Lost in Rugby, England, Dwight Morrow and his wife, the parents of Anne Lindbergh, wandered through the streets for hours. He stopped a little Rugby lad of about 12 years. “Could you tell us the way to the station?” he asked.

“Well,” the boy answered, “You turn to the right there by the grocer’s shop and then take the second street to the left. 

The “Discipline of Improvisation”

“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
– Paul Simon
American Singer and Songwriter
(1941 – )

It’s an oxymoron of course, because everyone who’s seen Improv on stage knows there’s no earthly form of discipline in that uncontrolled, free-form

Finding Cornerstones

“Turn left where the old oak tree used to be!”

– Anonymous

I asked directions on a country road in Louisiana. The old gentleman said, “Go down the road a piece, and turn left where the old oak tree used to be. Then go on ’bout five mile. You’ll meet up with the freeway presently!”
He was so matter of fact about it, that I had gone a “piece”