Watermarks

artesian (ahr-TEE-zhuhn) adjective

Pertaining to a well that has water rising to the surface under natural
pressure, without the need of a pump.

(I am dissatisfied with my daytime commitments and tired of complaining. My bitterness no longer serves as entertainment and when I encounter old friends--the best friends, the ones that know me best--I seem littered with sullen valleys.)

Change, strong personal change, can only occur after recognition. Before one can open a door, he must first see it.

No one sits in a room without exit.

(I am not proud of what I do here at the theater; it is not unique or interesting. And I should be proud. And I should participate only in interesting things.)

At the bottom of a pyramid, you are stifled by its weight and succumb to its pressure. At the top, you are too high to see the foundation and disillusioned with power. We are each blinded by where we could be. And that is civilization's ultimate flaw. Yet where we are--entrenched in the pyramid--was created by us. It is not what man makes that should define him, but instead why he chooses to make it.

Sometimes we are beings concerned more with the fountain than its water.