Erin Shields - Thought #8 - The Banff Centre

I'm at the Banff Centre right now working on a new play. This place is amazing - the mountains are beautiful, the staff is lovely, and there are forest creatures prancing by the window of my studio. Everything about this place makes an artist feel valued, which is a strange sensation. We're so accustomed to working in dirty, underfunded facilities on projects that at times seem only driven by passion that it's a shock to the system to have a clean, beautiful place in which to eat, sleep and create. I better get to work.