The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
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Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
Yesterday: my daughter accidentally hit me in the balls.
Last night, getting ready for a scene.
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
The third or fourth glass of wine.
I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
Not being active in my own desires.
Just remembered, really.
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