Random Riffs
Getting To Know You - Or Not.
February
14
2011
Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you,
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.
Oscar Hammerstein
“Getting to Know You” from “The King and I”
I’m …
Beyond Technique
January
4
2011
In the Q&A following a reading I attended a few years ago, the writer, Timothy Findley, was asked how he came to create the remarkable characters that populate his novels. He allowed that while he found that a difficult question to answer, he could tell us a story that might shed some light on the matter. At …
“What exactly is it you do, Mr. Hayman?”
November
3
2010
Not an easy question to answer – especially the exactly part. A bit like asking me how exactly I play George Gershwin’s “Summertime.” And it was put to me at an extraordinarily early hour of a Monday morning − hardly the time for getting one’s head around heavy-duty existential stuff like that. As a kid being processed through the public education …
“The Vision Thing” - Ends Are Important But Means Are Way More Fun.
March
27
2010
OK – I agree that you have to be able to answer the question, “What do you think you’re doing and why are you doing it?” You know, what the bemused 41st American president called “the vision thing.” Anyone responsible for moving any kind of collective enterprise forward has to have something in mind and be able to articulate …
Confessions of a Commuting Eavesdropper
February
18
2010
For T.S. Eliot, April’s the cruellest month. I don’t like March. And because it’s my wasteland, I’ve decided to serve up something light this month.
Once upon a time I had what my mother called a “real job.” A salary that got deposited into my bank account at …
