Looking Up to Real Stars

December 17, 2011 Authentic Experience
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I had taken a handful of earthworms to bed with me. She didn’t say, “ugh, throw these dirty things out!” She just said very quietly: “Jane, if you leave them here they’ll die. They need the earth.”

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Dreams Are Not Enough

Jim airborne December 6, 2011 Flickering Images

I now know what the cliché “beyond our wildest dreams” means. I never dreamed of having a film in Sundance. But why should that make me ineligible? Dreams are marvelous. Depicting them is often a writer and filmmaker’s job. And fulfilling them is such a rewarding process that not only the dreamer, but all those [...]

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When Words Mean Nothing but DO Something

May 3, 2011 Flickering Images

It’s significant that I went to sleep to ponder a movie about planting waking-life ideas in people’s dreams.
Yeah, the movie sucked me in. I gladly suspended my disbelief, rode along with the filmmakers’ playful illusions and deceits, and kept chewing on them after it was done. …

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