Hey, it's Liam, and this is my fourth thought. So, often when I tell folks what it is I do I'm met with the response: "Ah, that's so awesome! You get to spend your time playing pretend! That must be so fun." And... yeah! I tell stories, I have SO much fun doing it. Um, but when I think about it... I think, actually, my favorite thing about theatre is that it offers an opportunity to tell the truth. To take the most challenging, and the most difficult, the most uncomfortable, but the most honest things we encounter and share them with whoever's willing to listen.

Hey, it's Liam, and this is my third thought.

Hey, this is Liam, and this is my second thought.

Hey, it's Liam and this is my first thought.

Hey, it's Liam and this is my first thought.

Hello, this is Mariah Horner and this is Thought #14, my last thought.

Today I'm thinking about rigour. I'm thinking about um...the...artists and the people and the peers that I look up most...that I look most up to are those who are rigourous.

And I think that rigor is so sexy. Finishing a thing all the way to the end of it and being relentlessly curious about something that you explore all the corners is, for me, one of the most admirable traits about people.

And I want to challenge myself to be more rigourous, be more rigourous in every aspect of my life. Be relentlessly curious. Do the thing all the way to the end. Just like this residency.

Thank you all so much for listening. If you did, it's been a hoot.

Hello, this is Mariah Horner and this is Thought #12 (no it's 13).

And last night I went for a run having not ran in a very long time and it felt terrible but also felt amazing and um...I was thinking about one of the reasons I love running so much is that I love...I've never been a very athletic person and I love with running that you always get back exactly what you put in. You just have to show up, you just have to try and you just have to run and every time you run it gets easier. It doesn't matter about your skill it really just matters about you showing up.

And...I think more things in life are like this than we give credit for? You know so many things just require you to show up and just putting yourself in those running shoes or putting yourself in that room....you'd be surprised at the output you get depending on how hard you try.

Good morning this is Mariah Horner and this is Thought #12.

And this morning I'm thinking about Patrick Conner. I didn't know him before, but I know him now. He was a very celebrated artist - an actor, a director - he worked in Toronto but he also came from Kingston and he worked a lot here.

I'm thinking a lot about him...because...you know...I'm thinking about what it means to really change the world through your work. And I know we all think we're doing that. We put something out there and it affects people and it affects imagination and it comes back to us and we see that the world has changed and you know...one thing I'm really moved by Patrick, and you know his work with Big Carrot, it's about created a healthy society it's about understanding that the work that you put out in the world can affect a civil imagination. It can affect more than just one person at a time, it's about a society, it's about a culture, it's about something that is nurtured.

Good morning this is Mariah Horner and this is Thought #11.

And I don't know if this happens to any of you but sometimes I wake up and I have an immediate thought about something that is gonna happen during the day. Often for me it is breakfast....immediately when I wake up I know what I want for breakfast. But TODAY when I woke up it was a beautiful fucking day, it is blue skies all around in Kingston.

And uh...I'm lucky enough to have an office that is very close to the Gord Edgar Downie Pier which is an awesome new public urban beach that the city of Kingston built. SO when it is a beautiful day that means I go swimming. At lunch! Swimming! at Lunch!

So today I woke up thinking how fucking lucky I am that I get to jump in the lake, the St. Lawrence, on a beautiful sunny day in the middle of August, in the middle of my workday. Have a great Thursday everybody.

Hello this is Mariah Horner and this is Thought #10.

And...this morning I'm very tired [laughs]...and I'm really tired because I stayed up very late with a friend of mine who is going through some very difficult stuff and as I was leaving his house I wanted to tell him how proud I was of him but I stumbled all over my word choice because....I feel like the word proud carries some patronizing tones...and I think about this all the time...that I wish there was another word for pride... for for being proud of somebody who's like the same age as you or proud for somebody who's in the same moment as you.

Adoration? Admiration? I don't know.