It was the beginning of perspective. When she was doing it, she did not have any perspective. She was just angry. But as the years passed, suddenly it struck her as a foolish and futile thing to have done. It meant a new understanding that nagging my father was not the best way to help him.
Laughter can bring a new perspective.
Sometimes people are offended by my plays. They have said no, no this is serious, there is no laughter involved. But I like to mix the serious with laughter. It's a way of admitting that the stories we're all involved in are crazy. In Bette and Boo , Bette loses three children to still-birth.