The Yellows and Reds Eventually Turn Green
Written with great intensity and rare candor, “Greenlights” by Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey is an unconventional memoir.
For years, McConaughey has been keeping diaries filled with notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made him marvel, and things that made him laugh out loud.
When he finally worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries, he found stories, lessons, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs, some great photographs and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. He found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave him more satisfaction, at the time, and still does: a state of success he calls “catching greenlights.”
McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did,…
