Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Words Create Rituals



When the only way I connect to what happens on stage is by standing offstage eavesdropping, a passive onlooker to what is unfolding, then it's time to invent a role—and the mystical belief in the strength of the role.

Who has not promised to defeat, hold at bay, or alter a story by performing a ritual?

Wear a special hat, carry a good luck charm, don't step on cracks, repeat a mantra, and recite a psalm.

It's hard to be impotent.

It's hard to wait for what trickles into your vein to obliterate the cancer.

My words, my prayers, my rituals—all for you.

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