You're asked to walk with your head down, heart upon your sleeves, take it slow…. Would you want that? Or better yet, who would want that?

Well, the days might be warm and the nights cold or the other way round, but controlling your mind is the indefatigable technique.

Do you have the tools? You wonder.

Before this trudge on into an incessant monologue, I’d like to invite. To invite you to a hangout, a creatives day out, particularly thespians.

A world without art is just a heart that has no beat. And what’s better than the light expression of tragedy, that is the life we live.

“Life's but a walking shadow,” so goes in Macbeth, “a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."

I may be tempted to mince my words in this short essay, for however much I wrack my brain tonight about what to expect tomorrow, very little borders on sanity.

Well, Jeremy Rifkin wouldn’t have put it better when he said, “We're creating multiple personas.

We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see everything in our environment as a prop, as a set, as a stage, as a backdrop for filling ourselves in. We don't see ourselves as ever completed. We are in formation.”

And so, consider this: we're temporary players on a stage, yet we keep performing, creating, and inviting others into the show.

Art doesn't solve the "walking shadow" problem, but it makes the strutting and fretting more meaningful and shared.

I agree that a world stripped of art would be flatter and poorer. Theater, in particular, forces us to embody other lives for a while, which might be one of the healthiest ways to handle our own multiple personas and incomplete selves.

Now, tomorrow, come, come to Actors’ Day Out and Muse some more