If I may be blind to my situation, restore my sight that I may make ready a worthy passage with thee. Help me to know that I cannot vanquish life by evading duties, nor encircling myself with indulgences. " I just want to make it right again," Scott Fairchild muses. My Father, give me joyful courage to squarely face my life. Love and Walt Whitman set him on a collision course between his faith and the church. Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! Out the hawser-haul out-shake out every sail! Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? Have we not groveled here long enough eating and drinking like mere brutes? Have we not darkened and dazed ourselves with books long enough? Sail forth-steer for the deep waters only, Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me, For we are bound where mariner has not dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. The title of this collage originally derives from a two-line poem by Walt Whitman: The untold want by life and land neer granted,/ Now voyager sail thou. I love books, movies, travel, food and design so hopefully this whole endeavor won’t just be about peri-menopause.Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Many months later, when the pirate was sailing towards Scotland in stormy weather, his boat struck the very same rock and sank. or for many years or stretching cycles of years. I’m hoping this blog will help me find some other way to be productive in the second half (last third?!!) of my life or at least get some recommendations for what to watch on Netflix. ‘Song of the Open Road’ by American poet Walt Whitman is an extract from his book ‘Leaves of Grass’. There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day. I am turning 48 soon and my daughter is 14. I have kept at it and done guest spots on TV shows like Parks and Recreation, Monk, The Bridge, and Fresh Off The Boat and somehow miraculously shot over 40 national commercials where I usually play confused and/or depressed office workers and moms. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was 36 years old and every agent I met told me I was too old to get work in LA! I wasn’t that upset honestly because all I wanted to do was spend time with my 2 year old daughter…well, I was a little upset, because I still needed to make a living. and joined the Repertory Company where I did lots of modern and classical plays before returning to NYC to get married and have a baby. Institute at Harvard University to study acting and lived in NYC for a few years after graduation, temping and doing Off-Off Broadway plays, independent films and regional theatre around the country. Walt Whitman Truth, Simple, Complicated 190 Copy quote Be curious, not judgmental. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if. Walt Whitman Teacher, Faces, Helping 184 Copy quote The truth is simple. I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire and left to study Anthropology and Theatre at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Walt Whitman Perfect, Miracle, Hours 179 Copy quote When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
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