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Rattlesnakes, Spiders, and Flying Things

8/6/2014

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During the taping for the upcoming film on Love, Death, and Transformation, we experienced many visits from winged creatures, spiders, and a baby rattlesnake. In this case, a tiny spider landed on the shoulder of Corey's oldest friend. Corey and Patti met in second grade and remained friends forever after. As I positioned the camera, Corey's friend Emily noticed the spider and came forward to blow it off, but it somersaulted and clung to Patti in any way it could.

I don't know how, if at all, I will be able to give voice to this phenomena in the film, but many of us know that unusual visits from living things are part of the death and after-death process. A certain bird swooping or landing at a penultimate moment, a butterfly or dragonfly making itself known, a wild creature appearing in your path. These become a steady stream of unusual and unexpected moments accompanying the loss of a loved one. We don't know what to make of them, and yet they stand out as gestures that are both inner and outer, known and unknown. Without knowing what a moment like this is, we somehow have the sense that this moment is more than it seems.

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