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These days, we need to find brightness and lightness wherever we can. Today we are celebrating the official publication date of 'Everyday Play: A Campaign against Boredom' from @redstonepressbooks⁠ with a series of challenges from the book.⁠ ⁠ First up: LIVE LIKE MAYA ANGELOU⁠ ⁠ George Plimpton asks: When you are refreshed by the Bible and the sherry, how do you start a day’s work?⁠ ⁠ ⁠Angelou's answer: I have kept a hotel room in every town I’ve ever lived in. I rent a hotel room for a few months, leave my home at six, and try to be at work by six-thirty. To write, I lie across the bed, so that this elbow is absolutely encrusted at the end, just so rough with callouses. I never allow the hotel people to change the bed, because I never sleep there. I stay until twelve-thirty or one-thirty in the afternoon, and then I go home and try to breathe; I look at the work around five; I have an orderly dinner – proper, quiet, lovely dinner; and then I go back to work the next morning. Sometimes in hotels I’ll go into the room and there’ll be a note on the floor which says, Dear Miss Angelou, let us change the sheets. We think they are moldy. But I only allow them to come in and empty wastebaskets. I insist that all things are taken off the walls. I don’t want anything in there. I go into the room and I feel as if all my beliefs are suspended. Nothing holds me to anything. No milkmaids, no flowers, nothing. I just want to feel and then when I start to work I’ll remember. I’ll read something, maybe the Psalms, maybe, again, something from Mr. Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson. And I’ll remember how beautiful, how pliable the language is, how it will lend itself. ⁠ ⁠ From @parisreview issue 116, autumn 1990⁠ ⁠ ⁠Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #everydayplay #artistgames #philosophergames #writergames #games #mayaangelou #mayaangelougame #livelikemayaangelou #campaignagainstboredom https://www.instagram.com/p/CbIFwNQOKBZ/?utm_medium=tumblr