What I can promise you is this: if you are willingly open, ready to savor ambiguity, and prepared for unpredictability to come, then you will discover love that can break open flood gates, joy that will overwhelm you with its power and breadth, and opportunity that will saturate each day with anticipation and excitement.
If you read only the first half of Geoff Dyer's new novel — Jeff without death, West without East, decadence without denial — you might come away from it feeling something like Laura, Jeff's paramour for the long sweltering week in Venice: charmed, willingly seduced, and ready to resume your life unchanged, with no hard feelings about the fact that the encounter didn't add up to something more.
If you read only the first half of Geoff Dyer's new novel Jeff without death, West without East, decadence without denial you might come away from it feeling something like Laura, Jeff's paramour for the long sweltering week in Venice: charmed, willingly seduced, and ready to resume your life unchanged, with no hard feelings about the fact that the encounter didn't add up to something more.
This is an application to speech of a much more general principle: in improvised voluntary collaborations of any sort, the responsibilities a given party shoulders are those he willingly lets himself seem ready to shoulder, no more and no less.
To outsiders, it may seem easy for boards to remove a director at will if serious questions arise about conduct.But clear policies can help when a director is not ready to resign willingly.
The teen-ager, Jewel, is at her own "borderline" — of burgeoning adulthood — and the fact that she's ready to transform, willingly or not, makes her ripe for exposure.
The others are "Strip Mall" (tonight at 10 30), a raunchy soap opera-comedy set in a low-rent mall in the San Fernando Valley starring Julie Brown and Victoria Jackson, and "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush" (Tuesday night at 10), a game show in which contestants, who are packed and ready to go, willingly make fools of themselves in the hope of winning an exotic vacation.
Michael commented, "she's coming in and willingly every week wanting to get better, like she's ready, ready to figure out what she's doing, figure out what she's doing wrong, work on working on getting better and it's just been really cool to see that for me" (Michael's Interview, 2013).
What studio would willingly smash this golden egg, with its ready-made audience and its revenues?
3) You're terrified of change: Similar to number 2, if you're not ready to embrace change, why would you willingly accept opportunities?
