Actors and Thought Work

Actors.  We are, by nature, flexible creatures...

Second Best Bed

This one has festered for a while.

I see the thought and accept it.  

For so so so so many years, the female voice was written, predominantly,  by the males.  

The ideas we conjure about who women were, what we wanted, what we thought, were contained in the pen to paper of men.  

Not only written by the males, but performed, given life, by the males.

So, we females were doubly removed from the process.

I'm sure that felt good.

And sometimes they (these males who could afford paper) got it brilliantly right.

Then there's this one.  One example in the sea of possibilities.

Not an affront.  Not getting huffy.

Just. This awareness.

It would be great to know what she thought.

This recipient of the Second Best Bed.

We are developed enough to realize that time, history, culture, advocacy, education are all bending through our thoughts and we have come so far.

This is simply one strain of thought about the woman who married Williams Shakespeare.

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