Friends: As I write, it is now January 2010. Most of the rest of this website was created more than a year and a half ago. I aim to do some updating and mean to tell you that this is a work-in-progress. The thing I am most excited about today is the inclusion of Video. Please check out the Video Options to the left. Thank you, Tom Toohey (aka Tom Foote)
This website and my efforts originating from Grand Blanc, Michigan
are due to the efforts of three women, my mother,
Beatrice Foote, Viola Spolin, originator of Theater Games and Viola's mentor, Neva Boyd.
Most of the text of this website originate from the works of Viola Spolin and Neva Boyd.
Spolin Works! - Michigan will make every effort to direct you to the source materials
for your own consumption and purchase.
Life sometimes throws us curveballs that are very hard to hit and can be quite frustrating.
Right now, many people are hit with hard financial times due to the madness of the economy.
We begin to feel trapped and feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders.
It is times like these that we have be able to visualize our outcomes
and dream our goals in advance.
The story goes that, in 1944, a young 15 year old Martin Luther King Jr, was being mentored by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays at Morehouse University.
Dr. Mays gave this excerpt to MLK and told him to read it daily, in which he did.
May I suggest that we all could benefit from reading this excerpt each day upon waking.
It must be borne in mind...that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity not to dream...
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Not failure, but low aim is the sin.
-- Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
