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What a shame it is that we view life as anything but the grand adventure that it is.  I think often we find unhealthy patterns - patterns of thought or habit - and they rob us of joy that can be ours. We move through such a complicated, intricate world with adventure and fascination around every corner, be it in discovering new corners of the world or in discovering something new about our capabilities or our Heavenly Father. May we always find the time and the perspective to be adventurers.

She dances almost constantly now, to any song that she hears. Sometimes, when there is no music she will sing and dance to herself. Sometimes she will dance to the silence. She dances almost constantly now using her head, her arms, her hips and her legs like they each have a story to tell. She doesn't need to understand the words to the song in order to know how she'd like to dance to it - what she'd like for it to say. She dances almost constantly now, diligently, with a determined look on her brow. And it sounds silly for me to say but there is passion in her sway that I didn't think she was old enough to know. She hasn't learned to eat with her own fingers. She can't say words or understand our intents. She can't even walk or stand without help. But she dances almost constantly now. And the look on her face when she dances is how I want to feel about life. She may not know anything else but she knows she must dance with or without music. So she danc...

I went to see a play last week and guess what it was? Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. It brought me back to the last time I’d seen that play done - when you and many other of my friends at the time were the stars of the show. As the scenes progressed, I couldn’t help but remember the way you guys had acted them, and the differences between this play and yours. You acted a scene in that play that I’ll never forget. The scene right before your character was about to get married, she spoke with her father and told him that she was afraid and she didn’t want to get married, she wanted to stay with him. Your portrayal of that moment was so strong, it made me want to cry - thinking ahead to when I would have to say goodbye to my family and make that irrevocable change. I think it was at that play that I decided that I wanted to act. That desire morphed over time, if you’d told me back then that the seeds planted on that night would grow into a position directing plays and enabling the dreams...