There’s a picture I remember, from a storybook read to me when I was a little kid. In the picture a baby is being held upside down while two prostitutes look on- one in panic, the other in compliance. The story is this. Two prostitutes each had a baby. During the night, one rolled over her baby killing it. She traded her dead baby with the other woman’s and pretended the live baby was her own. When the situation was brought before the...
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One of the things I am most grateful for is the ability to dream. We live in a time frame where there is more opportunity, than in any other historical period, to be anything we can envision. Today, entrepreneurs rule the world, with ideas formed in garages and built on the confident spirits of someone with the ability to pull others into their orbits of success. No matter who we are, we all have a dream, something we are...
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Recently, in a class I’m taking, my teacher took a vote: “How many people begin writing something and don’t finish it?” To my surprise a lot of people raised their hands. I’m not claiming to have a secret or claiming I’m special. If anything, I tend to sway the opposite direction. I’m someone who waits for the muse to whisper in my ear. In my experience, once I have an idea it harasses me. It’s almost exhausting because...
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“No man is an island,” wrote John Donne closing the poem that gave Ernest Hemingway the title of his books For Whom the Bell Tolls. The meaning of the poem is about connectedness, that our actions affect each other, and in this interconnection we rely on each other to survive, succeed, and to thrive. The saying goes in the film world, as in other collaborative endeavors, that “it takes a village.” Even...
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