2008-07-03T14:38:30Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/hannah-montanatag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/457/17252008-07-03T14:38:30ZSursumCorda<p>Thank you! For the wishes, and for the comment.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/457/17242008-07-03T14:01:48ZStephan<p>&quot;All the world's a stage,</p> <p>And all the men and women merely players.&quot;</p> <p>If performance is indeed so prominent, we ought to give more thought to the reception and our abilities of receiving the performance as intended. Performance may free us to assume different alter egos as we make our way through life, but it also confines us to popularly understood and accepted shorthand codes, thus hardly being the sought-after route to self-expression many seem to be looking for.</p> <p>Add to that the possibility that we may be unintentionally performing because we know other people's expectations better than we know ourselves and I have to wonder if we don't have to add ironizing quotation marks to most of our reality, or at least faint cautionary markings that remind us of our limited powers of perception.</p> <p>Anyway, I thought I'd give you a comment for what your daughter tells me is your birthday - may it be a day of thanksgiving and rejoicing. See you in a week!</p>