Experimenting With Tulip Bulb Plantings Makes Me Smile

Watering the Tulips Spent the Autumn afternoon potting Tulip bulbs. Hoping that In seven months, they’ll bloom. I mixed the pots so they each have a blend of colors. Hot pink & blazing orange. I am trying out potting them instead of putting them into the ground. I like that they are movable that way. …

Pianist Loses Arm Yet Continues To Play

At the family estate, summer 1917. Paul Wittgenstein is second from left; his philosopher brother Ludwig Wittgenstein is at right. Photo by Michael Nedo After having his right arm amputated in WWI, stubborn pianist Paul Wittgenstein kept playing using only his left hand.  The Beauty of the Music Makes My Heart Swell I came across his life …

Reading Is One Of The Most Amazing Abilities in the World

After the several block walk with an illiterate woman getting her cigarettes today, I walked on feeling like I had one of the most amazing abilities in the world. She had approached me at the bus stop and asked me to walk with her to read the bus detour signs directing pedestrians through the mile …

Graffiti Art by Paralyzed Hospital Patients

Technology empowering paralyzed to create art using only their eye movement. EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower graffiti writers and artists suffering from ALS. An insightful innovation that captures eye movement and lets people express themselves in real time. To know more about The EyeWriter, log on to eyewriter.org. Read more: …

A Choir Built From YouTube Submissions Makes Me Smile

Beautiful. 2,000 people videoed themselves singing alone, and they were all put together to make a virtual choir. Voices from 58 countries. I ♥ this. Here’s what a single voice sounded like: And here’s what it sounds like when he put the virtual choir all together:

A Plastic Grin So Big Makes Me Smile

Saw this sculpture “Panda” by Takashi Murakami while visiting the MIA art museum. It makes me happy. It’s made of fiberglass with an antique Louis Vuitton trunk and wooden pedestal. It measures 100 1/2 by 65 by 43 inches. It’s tall! Was executed in 2003. It sold for $385,600

Opening A Letter From A Foreign Country Makes Me Smile

Opening the post office box and fishing out letters with stickers from places like “Luftpost” & “Deutsche Post” makes me want to tear into my mail while standing in front of the walls of locked PO Boxes. But I don’t. There’s something delectable about waiting until I am back home and sitting at my writing …

Taking Off Your Clothes: Awkward Moments On Set

I find wardrobe fittings to be a necessary evil. Necessary because it’s important to figure out what a character will look like in their clothes, and how they relate to other character’s clothes… etc. The awkwardness is that for me, the actor, I feel like am a human hanger during a fitting. I wonder if …