Last night, I was visited by Lady Muse. “What the H-E-double-L are you doing?!” Lady Muse loves to point out my directorial flaws whenever she gets the opportunity. Every show I have ever directed, she appears at some point and tells me how I am messing things up. This time, she pointed out how I am not LISTENING to the heartbeat of the play. She knows that I haven’t felt right about setting the first moment of the show, which for me sets the whole play in motion. Lady Muse went on. She reminded me to quiet my anxiety and read the play again. Then, she said, put my butt in the audience and watch the play unfold. “Listen…watch…and then go do your job.” As Lady Muse was about to leave, she did say good job on gathering a super production team and a mighty fine cast! Then poof, she was gone! Go do my job! Yep! Now if I could only get her to visit me during daytime hours, my anxiety might quiet itself down!