The Lost Generation One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Summer nights lying on the grass, after chores, with a bowl of green grapes resting on stomachs. The stars slowly brighten across the darkening sky. The last generation to witness their pure beauty. Yes, real stars before satellites littered the sky, invading and diminishing the …
Category: Teaching
Health Care Reform
I do not even try to pretend to understand the political issues being bantered back and forth between parties, families and friends. Everyone is so heated and convinced that the “other side” means harm to our freedoms and country. With all the noise and rhetoric, I feel I am not getting an objective point of …
Know Better to Do Better
Today I went to lunch with my son. We met in a crowded place. Along the back wall was a long table with 4 tall chairs. Two friends choose to sit in the middle two chairs. I pulled out one of the end chairs and sat down. They saw us, but did not offer to …
Every Life is Special
A few years ago I had the opportunity of producing a life documentary of an amazing woman. She had a remarkable life. She traveled and lived in foreign countries working, teaching and serving. Her and her husband were instrumental in building and operating a large teaching Academy in Mexico City. For three years they lived …
The Point
I have many moments where I think, “what is the point”? It doesn’t matter what project I am working on, some days I wonder why I ever thought “it” was important or worth my time and energy. Today I finished a book called THE HELP. As I came closer and closer to the end of …
Sharing the Torch
We have been spending the mornings this last month teaching animation and digital film to youth under 16 years old. What has been fun is how quickly they catch on to the possibility of both medias. Within the first day of the film class we had the students out shooting their first film that THEY …