My buddy Rory switched his undergraduate major from pre-med to theater. He still gets questions about that decision twenty years later: What did your dad, a doctor, think of that? What the heck do you do now?
In church last week, he shared an acting class lesson that he’s found applicable to life: if you project positive energy, you receive positive energy in return.
“All the world’s a stage,” claimed the Bard. We are actors, but we rarely have the opportunity to write the script. Witness the past two years when our country has headed in a direction that, as a person of faith, I find morally reprehensible. We have turned out backs on “the least of these” (Matthew 25)—like the poor, the sick, the immigrant, and the oppressed—to line the pockets of the rich and powerful. I’m hoping this upcoming election will put us on a new path toward justice, kindness, and humility (Micah 6:8).
But I confess that I’ve had my doubts due to the spread of misinformation and disinformation and crap-information. My worry can dull my perspective: the fall leaves look less bright. Geese, while pretty flying overhead, hiss at me like Satan’s house cat. And the soundtrack to hell is surely the sound of infernal leaf blowers. Ye gods!
Just when I was working myself into a good wallow, Rory reminded me to put positive energy out there. Give a little money. Visit the sick. Have lunch with a friend. Jog in the woods.
Halloween helps. Kids will be everywhere, buzzing with excitement. The other night after supper, my family piled into our minivan and drove around looking at Halloween decorations. At one point, we unloaded from the car, and a stationary scarecrow jump-scared us by popping to its feet! It was fun to be spooked by make-believe, not federal policy.
Since my daughter is dressing up as an alien, I’ve decided to go as one of the Men in Black. It’s a lazy costume design: no effort to make. In addition to my black suit, I’ll have my iPhone flashlight out to mimic the neuralyzer, or “flashy thing” that erases memory.
Positive energy can’t erase the corruption and abuse of power of the past few years, but we may be able to fix some of the damage. My mother made my daughter’s Halloween costume. After the nine-year-old slipped it on, she immediately turned a cartwheel in joy, which ripped a seam. Not to worry: Nana to the rescue. Though her sewing machine was broken, she repaired the costume by hand. When I apologized on my daughter’s behalf for the extra effort, Mom replied, “Well, of course she has to be able to turn cartwheels.”
Andrew Taylor-Troutman is the author of the book with Wipf and Stock Publishers titled This Is the Day: A Year of Observing Unofficial Holidays about Ampersands, Bobbleheads, Buttons, Cousins, Hairball Awareness, Humbugs, Serendipity, Star Wars, Teenagers, Tenderness, Walking to School, Yo-Yos, and More. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he is a student of joy.
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