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The creative life is an invitation to live a life of fullness and heartbreak in equal measure. When that heartbreak comes, and it will, how do we stay open to feeling when we feel there is nothing left we can give? Tony talks us through it in this week’s BLOG.Read more

John Lennon once said, “Life happens while you’re busy making other plans.” That’s for sure. We’re preparing for our imagined future when we’re missing what’s right in front of us. Or, we just don’t want to feel what’s happening in front of us. I met someone recently. We were “dating” (I’ll put that in airRead more

Let’s face it. Sometimes it can feel like we are under constant assault. A steady stream of people with unsolicited opinions of who you are, what you should be doing, how you should feel, think, vote, or believe. You’re too far left, you’re too far right, you’re too in the middle. You’re too thin, orRead more

Let’s deconstruct feeling, shall we, as it seems to be at the crux of almost all of our problems. Individually, culturally, and from a societal standpoint. Think about it. Isn’t almost every challenge you’re up against in life in some way a direct correlation to how you feel? About the situation? Or yourself? Or theRead more

Fall in f**king love. Just do it. That’s what you’re here for. And there are all kinds of perks and benefits for doing so. Not just Eros love ”“ although we’ll get to that in a minute. But all kinds of love are waiting for you to fall. Why don’t we commit fully? Are we scared ifRead more

What mask do you live in that you’ve outgrown? There are hundreds. The ditz, the brainiac, the dumb-ass, the bitch, the too-cool- for-school, the douche, the weirdo, the sex-pot, the serial apologizer, the victim, the comic relief. We all know them. And can identify. And they all keep us from stepping into the real people we wish toRead more

What does poetry mean? If you think about in terms of art and in terms of love, it means to go beyond the prosaic. It goes beyond the pedestrian, or common, or that which seems to be the structured “norm.” But it’s not exclusionary ”“ which is maybe what we felt 17th Century poetry was when we readRead more

Acting asks us to do things that we avoid in life. You know, like feel. Emote. Get angry. Lose our shit. Live in desperateness. Be vulnerable. Do awkward things. Be physical. Trust our instinct. Live privately publicly. Be seen with our imperfections. Stay in conflict. But it’s hard to call upon and then live in those deepRead more

It’s as simple as this: Just try to love yourself as much as you can no matter where you are on your journey. And here’s why that’s so damn hard. There’s life. Reality. Existence. Whatever you want to call it. Then there are the illusions of life. The ideas. The lies. The smoke-&-mirrors. We compare whereRead more

What Alan Rickman & David Bowie Taught Us About Acting. We lost two greats from the acting and music world last week. Their insights about creativity and how to be a bad-ass will be missed. David Bowie and Alan Rickman. I thought it was worth sharing some of their inspiring words to help us have greater creativeRead more