Attention Inventory: Seasonal Summits, Blue Moods, Honeycomb Manifestations

A list of March's preoccupations...

Nothing succeeds without taking stock—Attention Inventory is an assemblage of 5 recent fixations, in no order and of no theme.

1. Calibration That Counts

There’s a lot to process in this Jeremy Strong interview in last week’s NYT Magazine, but it happened to cross my radar at the right moment (and in a season where I can’t quite commit to my own plot.)

Sometimes it feels impossible to maintain a dedication to your own inner fortitude; to “live like a mighty river.” I got punched in the gut reading J.S.’s response to how he makes decisions re: roles to accept or pursue:

“…There’s this wonderful book by Alma Mahler Werfel. She was with Mahler and Klimt. She wrote that she observed this ongoing tension between what she called the loving soul and the calculating soul. The calculating soul only led so far. So there’s a desire in me and maybe in others to align with only that other part of myself. But it’s not the whole truth. 

You want to play in first chair and you want to play pieces that w…