"THEORY OF BEAUTY.'

 "Thomas Aquinas's theory of beauty."

Three things are needed for beauty

Wholeness

Harmony

Radiance

CHAOS AND NOTHINGNESS

 CHAOS AND NOTHINGNESS

Chaos and nothingness won't go away

But for sure can be postponed for the day for doing

something  you really love to do.

That would keep chaos and nothingness away

for at least one day.

And every day will be that day

When chaos had been postponed temporarily

UN-NERVED

You must not be un-nerved by everyboday

and by every occasion, otherwise you will destroy yourself.

Every moment of the day would be ruined by every one

whom you encounter.

Prepare yourself in advance to be totally un-nerved by every atrocity.

Always have a smile on for irritants of all kinds.

That smile one must reserve for anyone who can be a source of annoyance

of one kind or another.

That smile will keep you languidly amused.

EMPTINESS OF THE DAY

Emptiness of the day,

of the aternoon,

of the evening

and of the night...

How to fill it?

Try, try, try your best to do something, anything which interest you

Anything which you like, anything you love, anything which you

would ;ike to talk about, like to think about, laugh about.

Remember, remember things you loved and lost.

Any way memories of loss can be a source of sorrow,

but try to make them pleasant like pleasant, pleasurable companions.

"Some mysterious thing coming back from the past." John Banville (The Sea)

"The past beats inside me like a second heart." Banville (The Sea)

PLAYS TO BE SEEN

 PLAYS TO BE SEEN

1:BEDLAM THEATER TILL DEC 21, 263 W 86 ST. CALL BLAKE

2: STAGE READING, SYMPHONY SPACE DEC 16

3: NAZERETH PRESS NIGHTS: HASSAN'S SHOW

4: VERY IMPORTANT. PREVIEWS NOV 25 ST ANN'S WARE HOUSE ANNA CHRISTI

5: SKIRBALL DANCE,  NOV21

6: VERY IMPORTANT. SKIRBALL SEASON STARTS JAN 2026

7 ORATOR, SIGNATURE TILL NOV 23

8 PUBLIC: GIRL INTERRUPTED MAY 2026??

9: PUBLIC THEATER:INITIVE PRESS OPENING NOV 20

10: SOHO REP, SONG JAN 14

CHILDREN

CHILDREN

Children are curious.

They watch everyone

Want to communicate with everyone

Want to know everything

To them no one is a stranger

They want to get to know everyone

Everything is fascinating to them

They silently ask questions

Wonder about things...flowers, trees, lakes, water, people.

They are inquisitive

They are alive.

I want to live like a child

I want this world to be fascinating to me

I want to notice the flowers, water, the moon, the sun, the people.

My desire to be a child is so strong that I have become a child

I write like a child

I draw like a child

My curiosity is like a child

I think like a child

I watch like a child

I talk like a child

I sleep like a child

I live like a child.

I AM ALIVE 

SOMEBODY, A SKETCH BY BINA SHARIF

SOMEBODY: 

A SKETCH

I AM A SOMEBODY

WHAT?

I SAID, "I AM A SOMEBODY."

YOU ARE?

YES

BUT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF YOU

BECAUSE YOU ARE A NOBODY.

(NOTE: Shortest possible theatrical sketch ever written.

 

MONTH OF NOVEMBER

 MONTH O F NOVEMBER

Nov: 6

I read two short stories by Maupassant

1:Prisoners

2: Two soldiers

Nov:7

ATCA Conference

Friday: 9-5

Saturday: 9-1

Sunday: We must send scripts to fawzia

Any day in Nov:

I must read the script of: Stream of consciousness of singing birds."

Go talk to Alex about the voice over

I have to stop eating bread completely

Then I have to fast twice a week.

Writing

'No one is happy.

No one is as unhappy as we are

We are so emotional and so loyal to our belief

People fake it

People are so slippery, oily snakes

One day with this one

The next day with an other

No morals

No class

No sophistication ...

Just happy...

Very happy...

Very very happy.  BS

Blaise Pascal

 Sayings of Blaise Pascal

"All of man's unhappiness stems from his inability to stay alone

in his room contemplating without self loathing and without distraction."

ART

"An outline was drawn of her lover with a charcoal stick.

Thus art was born-out of fear out of fear of and grief at forgetting."

ENDURE

"Then you have no refuge. but write."

'Why we should despite everything, good art help us recall reasons-then

you have no refuge but writing."  Tennessee Williams

"Know the joys of harsh life and pray."

"The taste for productive concentration should in the mature man-replace

the taste for wastage,"  Baudelaire

Food

Hummus

Chick peas

Tahini sauce

Olive oil

Lemon

Garlic

Cumin

Topping: Paprika, parsley, olive oil.