Intermission
a creative coffee break from writing the play

In the Spirit of the coming abundant Thanksgiving holiday we opted to provide three meditations instead of one. The file is larger than normal and may take longer to load.

Listen to the November 9 meditation: Harvesting: A Trio of Different Voices

Want to know more about our OMCCB meditation? Read here.

Keep on creating your Art and Entertainment!

Ronald Harwood
November 9, 1934
Cape Town, South Africa

…writing is like an actor improvising. It is where my voice comes from. One time a psychologist wanted to interview me about my creative process. But I was scared that if I looked too closely, I will jinx it. How can you assure yourself that is you write something that someone will want to read it? You can’t.

Interview with Ronald Harwood (Wendy J. Williams, November 13, 2007)

Mo Gaffney
Nov. 5, 1958
San Diego, CA USA

I am just so goddamn tired. It gets so’s I dread takin’ a shower. I don’t know why…Worse thing, though, is I get this feeling like if I don’t get something I just won’t be whole, and I don’t think I can get it ’cause I don’t know what the hell it is, but it just keeps on suckin’ at me ’til I gotta have a drink or do a crossword puzzle or something to make that feeling go away.

Karen Sue, Parallel Lives, based on the Kathy and Mo Show, p.100
by Mo Gaffney
and
Kathy Najimy

Sam Shepard
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
November 5, 1943

Something’s been coming to me lately about this whole question of being lost. It only makes sense to me in relation to an idea of one’s identity being shattered under severe personal circumstances—in a state of crisis where everthing that I’ve previously identified with in myself suddenly falls away. A state of shock, I guess you might call it.

Letter to Joe Chaiken, October 29, 1983
written by Sam Shepard
Joseph Chaiken & Sam Shepard: Letter’s and Texts, 1972-1984, p.128

Charles MacArthur
November 5, 1895
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

Now you take the events leading up to the crime; his hanging a red flag out of the window on Washington’s Birthday. That ain’t normal, to begin with. The officer ought to have realized when he went up there that he was dealing with a lunatic.

Woodenshoes, The Front Page, p.25
by Charles MacArthur

Terrence McNally
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
November 3, 1939

I had a fare to JFK the other day. “See any good shows?” I asked him. “No,” he said, “I hate the theatre.” I said, “Get out of my cab. I hope you miss your flight, you creep. How do you hate the theatre? That’s like hating life.”

Emma, It’s Only a Play, p.61
by Terrence McNally

The next meditation will be held Monday, November 9, 7:30 PST/10:30 EST.

This will be our second to last meditation for our 2009 experimental series. In honor of the love, warmth, abundance Spirit of Thanksgiving we will do a 3-minute meditation instead of the usual 1-minute.

Three of us will create a kind of meditation sandwich, and since one of us is calling in from a theme park who knows what will happen! We only know it will be fun to do. Maybe even fun to listen to.

Please sign-up if you are so inspired. We’d love to have you on the teleconference with us!

We hope you have an extraordinarily creative day and that you are shining your light as brightly as you can.