At this point I am familiar with a variety of soy chai lattes from $3 to $7.50 and the best is the one at the George Chuvalo Community Centre which is also the $3 version, but it’s not just anyone who makes it excel. The cook with the many black and white tattoos, who is never seen without her toque and currently greets me with “the Yooje?” is superior to any other teenager that sometimes covers for her. I like the role she plays and with every new exchange slightly more information is revealed about each of us. Now I know she plays cello, that her girlfriend is vegan, likes Wu Tang Clan and never saw the Jim Jarmusch film Coffee and Cigarettes though she wrote it down when I told her about Bill Murray’s scene with GZA and RZA. She knows I prefer the lattes steamed hotter, am a musician, teach a course on songwriting and she is the only person I ever encountered who got the joke when she saw me in my t-shirt of a toddler and two ice cube trays, (ice ice baby). One of the ideas that came about from my school studies is the talk of people performing whatever they are doing. Like she is performing being a cook. I am performing being a student or a teacher. All those conversations make you ask then what isn’t performing or is trying to see everything as a performance just a mind game? The same teacher told us even you or whatever ideas you have about what is you, is an act. Is that is an efficient way to understand reality? Then one might look at their problems and ask if they’re just acting the part of someone with that problem. One might conclude they should simply try on another role. A young pianist told me he couldn’t play arpeggios. He was committed to being that character, the pianist that can’t play arpeggios in the 6th act page 89. He didn’t appreciate me pointing out he could audition for another part. I suppose that means his character is also suppose to push back against authority. This will soon become one big mess where the only way out is appreciating everything is doing exactly what it should be doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"