Short Video Teasers for the Film-in-Making
Happy Birthday, Corey
Matt St. Germain, Kung Fu brown belt, teaching an informal class, 2014. There are universal lessons within a martial arts class; themes having to do with perspective and vision, preparedness and right action.
What Love Is: Cesar with Jenna, his beloved friend, 2014.
Heather, Corey's friend of 16 years describes a dream she had near Halloween, 2014, in which Heather falls into a photograph of Corey in the desert, and then Corey asks her, "Whose dream do you want to be in: yours or mine?" From the photograph dream, Corey pulls Heather into another dream...then Corey interlaces her fingers with Heather's and pulls her into a different place altogether and says, "THIS is MY dream."
When Heather awoke, she felt alive and energized and wonder-filled--instead of thrown into tears, as some of us are after waking from a Corey visit, a Corey dream, and feeling the shock and loss all over again. (Nine minutes long...but worth the time because it is a saga of how we can experience the so-called dead in dreamtime. Get a cup of soup and sit down.)
When Heather awoke, she felt alive and energized and wonder-filled--instead of thrown into tears, as some of us are after waking from a Corey visit, a Corey dream, and feeling the shock and loss all over again. (Nine minutes long...but worth the time because it is a saga of how we can experience the so-called dead in dreamtime. Get a cup of soup and sit down.)
Happy Birthday, Corey, I made this for you and your friends. 2014. A rough cut from the upcoming film on love, grief, and transformation. Thanks to David Lamotte for his song, "Prayer Without Words" and for harmony vocals on "Can You Still Hear Me?"
A rough cut, 2014. Thanks to Jesse Donovan music for the score.
2014. Grief as spiritual initiation.
David Lamotte in a rough draft of his newly minted song, 2014. He generously agreed I could use the song in the film on transformation and grief. The chorus proclaims that "all the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light of just one candle."
2013 Creative montage w/music by Corey's friend, Liz Rogers. It captures much of Corey's joie de vivre.
In mid-May, 2013, when I returned to Kauai, Hawaii to reunite with family and friends there, Corey and I talked about what it means to live into your higher purpose. My cousin Candace (left), our dear friend Mark Anderson (right) and I sang this song. I wanted to share the below video because the words came back to me today: Keeping the peace, holding the vision, living the dream of a higher union. I take this up today with renewed passion as I search for the higher union with Corey.