Charlotte Purser • Posts Tagged ‘dreams’

Today is the day I will finally plant my upside down tomatoes! I can’t wait! I bought some seedlings a few days ago and they are already growing taller.

My grandfather has had a vegetable garden for as long as I can remember. He’s always grown amazing cucumbers and sometimes tomatoes, too. It seems like his having a garden has cultivated a strong sense of balance, patience, and dedication in his life. Or maybe he’s always had that and the garden just showed it to me…

I have wanted to have my own vegetable garden my whole life. It seemed to me that growing things, making something out of simple dirt and water, would be such a lovely way to exist. Alas, as an adult, I have never had a yard. A lack of a yard will not be an issue today, though, as I will make do in true New York fashion and plant, in my new hanging planter, a wee tomato seedling-which I plan to cultivate into a brilliant red and green bounty of topsy turvy juicy summer goodness.

See? There is a way to achieve the dreams of childhood. One just has to be flexible with the parameters. No yard? No problem.

Wish me luck!

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Charles Ray. Untitled, 2009. Ink on paper, 47 x 31-1/2”.

Collection of the artist; courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.

New York City. You inspire me. Everyday you begin anew. As if each day is fresh off the press and the old news is just lining the kitty litter box. I like that. Beginning anew. Forever with a chance of rebirth.

After having a few brilliant auditions, one not-super-great audition, a few callbacks, and a few setbacks, I was feeling a wee bit down in the dumps. But something about getting back up and trying again. Something about that undaunted spirit of hope courses through human veins. Something about the unwavering belief in one’s own gifts and need for self expression lifted me out of the doldrums this morning. I can begin anew. I can with sensitivity and nuance create new work and master the art of auditioning. I can start fresh. Dust off past disappointments. Emerge from a blue cocoon and spread my wings.

So, thank you New York City. The hope of your sunlit mornings inspires me.

fleeckr:

through the glass (by Christopher Frank Beitz)

Planting the seeds for success this week. One seed at a time. One letter. One email. One idea.

One idea.

Today, that idea is gratitude. When I think of the efforts others have put in to help me on this journey, I feel exceedingly grateful. The desire to work extra hard and be deserving of their efforts doubles in me and I reach higher, dig deeper, and commit further to it.

The fact that others in my life have cared enough to support me gives me the faith that I will reach my goals and succeed. The fact that perfect strangers make time in their schedules for me to meet with them makes me both appreciative and hopeful for the possibilities of the future. That my life is filled with such creative, inspired actors, designers, writers, painters, technicians, entrepreneurs, teachers, and students continually amazes and surprises me.

For this, I am honor-bound and inspired with gratitude.

(this amazing photo is from National Geographic)

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” (Mahatma Gandhi)

“Don’t dream it. Be it.” (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

I am excited! Today I had my first day training at Lululemon and seriously, I never thought retail work could be so inspiring. I am truly energized and inspired from having spent only one day there.

I am feel this way because I finally put into words what my long term goals are. I had perhaps been thinking too small before. I had perhaps been thinking of things that are too easily attainable. Perhaps not even admitting to myself what I really wanted from life. What I needed was to define a goal that encompassed all of my smaller, reachable goals and set me on fire to surpass them by miles.

What I needed was a big, out there, wild, audacious goal to challenge my creativity and capture my heart’s imagination.

Then.

I knew it.

How funny. It was like it had been there all along. Waiting for me to say it out loud.

I am an actor, I love acting, but I want more than just to work as an actor. I want more than just to be successful in a traditional sense. I want something bigger.

I think that theatre can be bold, innovative, powerful, physical, subtle, visceral, raw, magical, evocative, exciting, and compelling. Theatre can change lives. Theatre can be as evocative as a sporting event. I have only seen it two or three times before- and then at only small scale levels- but I know it can be created. And I think it can be created more often and performed for many more people. I know it can. The thought of collaborating in the creation of something so exciting shoots through my imagination like a wildfire, igniting everything it touches with a passion to create itself.

It is a leap for me. It is different from what has come before. But the truth is, this wildfire is what makes me want to act, to collaborate, to create. This is what inspires me.

It is

Ignition.

(I thought this painting by Paul Tebbot -link below- was the perfect image for the idea of painting this life the way we dream it.)

dannel:

Paul Tebbott