“School should not be preparation for life. School should BE life.”

Elbert Hubbard

 

Pain

Cold blood is eating you inside your body
Sangre fría te devora el cuerpo por dentro
It hurts inside of me
Duele en mi interior
I wish it would stop
Ojalá parase
My faith is shaking
Mi fe se tambalea
I run until I can’t run anymore
Corro hasta que ya no puedo correr más
I stop and I sob and I cry
Me detengo, sollozo, lloro
No one is on my side
Nadie está de mi parte

Nathan Roberts

 

 

That’s what’s so liberating about opera, because nobody can do it alone. The soprano is dependent on the oboe player, who is dependent on the person whose finger is on the switch on the light board, who is dependent on the person who raised the curtain, who is dependent on the person who tore the ticket, who is dependent on the person who served you your drink at intermission.

You’re having this total experience. No part of it could ever be isolated — it’s only possible because the whole cosmology comes into play. And human beings are doing this astounding thing, which is working together to make something that is way beyond their individual selves, or capacities, and
that lifts everybody to a new place.

Peter Sellars, Stage Director and Teacher