Monday, May 10, 2021

A Deep Year

 

This has been a deep year.


That's the simplest way to put it.


The coronavirus hit America back in early March 2020. That was 14 months ago. I'm getting ready to begin my 15th month in isolation. This is a crazy world we live in. I won't take the vaccine. Simply put, there's a lot of reasons for this, but it basically boils down to personal beliefs. I won't take any medicine. I won't even get a flu shot. I've got a lot of personal opinions about this world we live in, and today's culture, but I just have to keep my mouth shut. That's all I'll say about that.


Having said that, this has been one crazy year. That's an understatement. So much has happened over this last year that has changed my life. I now look at things in a completely different way. I see the things that are important in life. It took the worse pandemic in the history of the world to force me into isolation and look at things in a different way.


The things that have happened over this last year:


There's two books I've been reading and studying over the last year while in isolation that have really opened my eyes: the Upanishads and the Christian Science textbook 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures'. Both of these books have been helping me a lot. I've come to realize that both deal with the Mind. The Christian Science bible is medicine for the mind. The Upanishads exercise the mind. Both of these books are helping me a lot while in isolation.


I've also began to look at things in a philosophical view. Over this last year, I've learned so much about the arts while in isolation that I never knew about. I've been in the entertainment business for over 35 years. Until now, there were so many things I was not educated in. Before this last year, I always looked at the arts from a creative angle: as an actor, a writer, a producer, a director, a filmmaker. Now, I'm starting to see the arts from a philosophical viewpoint. Analyzing things. Questioning things. Last year, I discovered Dramaturgy for the first time in my life, and it fascinates me. Over the last 6 months, I've discovered 13 different cultures around the world that practice art that I was never familiar with. Also, I've learned about philosophers in art from over the last 500 years I never knew about. My life is changing, that's for sure. Also, there's different art forms I never knew about. Take the art Theatre of the Absurd. Or Theatre of the Oppressed. Or Devised Theatre. Look at philosophers I had never heard about like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Boal...this is a fascinating new world to me.


There is a lot I have planned to work on this summer. Over the next 12 weeks, I plan on writing a script a week, and working on a different project each week. If I keep to that schedule, then come August, I'll have 12 new scripts written and 12 projects worked on. That's a pretty constructive summer! Plus, there's other things to work on daily not included here. It's amazing what one person can do in isolation out here in the middle of nowhere. All you have to do it set your mind to doing things and having the discipline. Thank God I'm the way I am and lived in another time before today's world.


That's about all I have to say about that.



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