JAY OLSON

Had a great time last weeked teaching and performing at this:

And sharing the stage with this guy:

1/3 Work, 1/3 Trade Show, and 1/3 quick vacation to a warmer climate, the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, now a three week event in it’s eleventh year,is one hundred percent annual blast. Get into it!

Here are some NCCAF images I stretched out to make myself appear slimmer and more talented:

                             The BEATBOX crew with Emo Philips.

      Jay Olson and Zach Ward in the process of WRECKING the Cat’s Cradle.

“Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his twenty-fifth year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.”

- T.S. Eliot

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“Growth begins when we accept our own weakness”

- Jean Vanier

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

- Patrick Henry

“Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.”      

- Johan Huizinga

“      It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying
Now I want to understand
I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hiding”

- Jackson Browne

“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”

- Bill Cosby