The month of January is named for the Roman god 'Janus', whose two faces looked simultaneously back to the past, and forward to the future, and inevitably the arrival of a new year is a time of hope for new beginnings. Destiny however, can often take a very different course from the one we charted. An old expression goes: "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans!"
On New Year's Eve 2019, I was joking about the return of 'The Roaring Twenties'! But instead of bootleggers and speakeasies, by March of 2020 we had the most dangerous Pandemic in 400 years; and all those high flown dreams we had went to Hell as, instead of 'roaring', the Twenties stalled before they got out of the driveway. The vaccine program got the engine restarted, only to stall again in the street with the recent arrival of the Omicron variant flooding the carburettor.
I have not been in front of a camera professionally throughout 2021, but as I have faced other challenges, I have been inspired by ideas of my own, and increasingly feel that I would not only like to act; but to act in stories that I want to tell. And for this reason my hopes for 2022 include new adventures in acting and filmmaking.
Whatever your hopes are for 2022, I wish you every blessing and will be pleased to know that you are finding success and fulfilment; because in the words of the recently late, and very great, Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Happy New Year...
On New Year's Eve 2019, I was joking about the return of 'The Roaring Twenties'! But instead of bootleggers and speakeasies, by March of 2020 we had the most dangerous Pandemic in 400 years; and all those high flown dreams we had went to Hell as, instead of 'roaring', the Twenties stalled before they got out of the driveway. The vaccine program got the engine restarted, only to stall again in the street with the recent arrival of the Omicron variant flooding the carburettor.
I have not been in front of a camera professionally throughout 2021, but as I have faced other challenges, I have been inspired by ideas of my own, and increasingly feel that I would not only like to act; but to act in stories that I want to tell. And for this reason my hopes for 2022 include new adventures in acting and filmmaking.
Whatever your hopes are for 2022, I wish you every blessing and will be pleased to know that you are finding success and fulfilment; because in the words of the recently late, and very great, Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Happy New Year...
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