RIP Alan Arkin 🙏🏻

oh, i enjoyed him so much! people most likely know him best for his Oscar, Golden Globe, and Tony winning performances, and for so many movies (Little Miss Sunshine, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Gross Pointe Blank, Argo, Django Unchained, Get Smart, The Santa Clause 3, Dumbo). if you want to see a fun movie with him, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine check out Going In Style. i’ve also recently enjoyed him in The Kominsky Method opposite Michael Douglas.

he was also a seeker and found meaning and influence within Eastern thought both from Buddhism and Hindu traditions. he taught for more than a few years at the Omega Institute and wrote a book Out of My Mind discussing this. 

he lived here in San Diego County in Carlsbad, and a friend of mine studied improv from him and became friends with him. she adores him. at the beginning of the pandemic, with his permission (he told her to “share the hell out of it!”) she shared a little video of him on his front porch playing ukulele singing a song about taking selfies. with all the seriousness of what was going on at that time, it was the medicine needed to remember the importance of joy, laughter, and smiling.

“I don’t know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away. Somebody introduced that idea to me about six or seven years ago. And the more I thought about it, and the more I tried to live by it, the happier I got.”

~Alan Arkin

“I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.”
~ Alan Arkin

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

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