Drawn by a Star

And so once again, the screenplay takes a new turn. I love when I can stop trying to regiment my thoughts and switch to the right brain, completely. I believe this is what savants do naturally, all of the time. I am not a savant. I have read there are only 50 savants known to be alive in the world today. Most of these extraordinary 'genius' people, but not all, are severely autistic. So, the technique of letting my film's characters 'speak to me' has done the trick. There is flow again in the screenplay story, but new questions like small mushrooms keep popping up ! A hundred new whys, and a hundred new what ifs. Often answers or 'messengers' come in strange guises. Sometimes via the Internet ! This is what happened today: Savantism. What is this ? As I read about savant-ism, my heart gave a startled little jump, then a smile, then my attention was 100% grabbed. It was an unmistakable ah-ha moment. There's old adage which...

"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey." — John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom) Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish lake. Walter Scott There's a shadow on the door of my soul. It's my film story. My screenplay characters are walking though a new door. They've come out of hiding. For the moment this feels like a consensus, but anything can change at any time. It will be Sasha's story now. The kidnapped granddaughter. Her challenge is to find her mother. But first she has to find her grandmother. The story is about unearthing, then understanding an accepting a tragic holocaust family 'story', which finally, bring...

ブログへようこそ、私の日本での新しいリーダー！ "Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communication back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!" Jack Canfield How easy it is to forget ...that we create our own heaven or hell by the thoughts we choose to project, 24/7. So, after a brief visit to hell on Friday morning, I've learnt the lesson, got the message, and will apply it to the screenplay. It' safe now for all the screenplay characters to come out of hiding. Versión en español Lo fácil que es olvidar... "Recuerdas que tus pensamientos son la causa principal de todo. As...

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Buddha 更好的千餘空心字，就是一個字帶來和平。 佛 The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens, all those years ago. 整個建設和創造之間的差異，正是這樣的：一個東西構造只能被愛後，構造，但創建的喜歡的事情之前它的存在。 查爾斯狄更斯，所有這些年前。 A work of art, a novel, a screenplay, a sculpture, a piece of music, still in the heart, loved before it exists. 一個藝術作品，小說，劇本，雕塑，一片片的音樂，依然在心裡，愛才存在。 一個特殊的打招呼，我特別歡迎新的中國讀者。 For my new readers in China, thanks to Google translate.

'If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.' Mother Teresa

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus All the colorful individuals I've created for my screen play seem to have fled. They've escaped from my mind . Jumped ship. I feel bereaved. I can't locate them. Five years ago in the far south of Patagonia, after a long day on an old tourist boat exploring icebergs and awesome glaciers, I had a 'vision.' We were crossing a turquoise lagoon. I was sitting alone at the back of the motor boat. Everybody else was inside, huddled together, sleeping off a late large lunch eaten on a small island. I forget it's name. I'd eaten half a tuna sandwich and an apple.I was thirsty. My gaze was focused on the mountains we were leaving, not on the view we were heading towards. I felt profoundly sad. A humiliating experience on the island had triggered a tsunami of self doubt. What I was doing with my lif...

People like us are people who love stories. The earth is full of stories just as for a fish the ocean is full of ocean. (Ben Orki) We are born from stories, invisible stories. (B.O) The purpose of art is to enchant the heart and mind into a sense of its true magnificence. (B.Okri) Even when we struggle to put the pieces together as artists and writers, it's all there, if only we can allow it through. If only we can get out of our own way. The journey of storytelling never ends.

Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.” Ben Okri. Nigerian author who uses magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in his country, 1959 “Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.” Marsha Norman For K. and Cristian in Peru and anybody out there who might be having a few doubts about their huge dreams... 'Nunca dudes por un segundo que tus sueños son reales y maravillosas y que el fruto de tus sueños se beneficiarán a ...

Sometimes a little fear can sneak in and cause havoc in the body as well as the heart. The part of our body which feels the fear, or becomes ill because of the fear, gives us the clue. Legs. Eyes. Feet. Louise Hay has a lot to say about this. So, my legs are aching for help. Is there any connection between my pain and Reuben's? Is all this research for the screenplay bringing something ancient and ancestral to the surface? I just read inspirational Michaela's new blog post, her details are below. It is true to say we can heal anything, but we can't always cure everything. This is the theme of my screenplay. Creativity Heals. Will Reuben heal before he dies of a heart attack ? 'There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space, too vast for words t...

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Khalil Gibran Yes. The following photos are for all my far away readers in now so many countries. Each day it seems a new reader opens the door to my stories and paintings and it thrills my heart to share with you like this. So for the new reader today in Saudi Arabia, the seven readers in the Ukraine, plus all the readers in the US, Iran, India Israel, and so many other countries, not forgetting Frances in Bonnie Scotland, thank you all for sharing this adventure of blogging with me. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Lao Tzu “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be” Lao Tzu These photos of the marble caves at Rio Tranquillo in Patagonia were taken during my second journey there to find a story to make into a film....

I've just discovered how to post more than one image at time! Slow leaner . So here are three of my paintings which fit in some strange way with the theme and the feelings ( which I have today) of the screenplay I'm writing. Today is a very down day. I'm feeling lost. The high of finding Reuben's motive has plummeted. When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your womb tonight. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see. You must learn one thing. The world was meant to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte