I am back home.

Peggy and the girls got home last month (they got off the boat in Georgia,) and I just finished the month-long task of bringing our boat up the Eastern Seaboard. I got home three days ago. I’ve been doing laundry, mowing the lawn, sleeping, and reading my friends’ and colleagues’ blogs to get up to speed on everything that’s been going on during my four month hiatus, and it looks like there are a lot of exciting projects cooking — books, collumns, art-spaces, new films — all sorts of things!

Would you like to know about our trip? I’d like to tell you, but it’s hard to know where to start, except that long before I ever had any aspiration to make films, I dreamed of sailing a boat out of sight of land, through the night, and on to someplace with warm clear water.  I can now say, with more than a little satisfaction, that I’ve fallen asleep on deck while the boat made way under a star-filled sky, and I’ve played with my children in water as clear and warm as any five-star hotel’s pool. Some days were heaven, some were indescribably hard; little, if any of it, was anything like a vacation.  But in the sum and total the trip was one of the most worthwhile things I’ve ever done.

Against that, I am, for the moment, enjoying the fantasy that making films and getting them seen is going to feel easy by comparison to what we’ve just done. But of course they are different adventures, each with their own frustrations and satisfactions. But maybe (just maybe) I’ll find that I have a little more perspective on the film ‘ting. No matter how frustrating (or financially damaging) it may be to have a film banned, or passed over by a festival, neither poses a risk to life or limb.

So, back to the edit bay, and “Bill and Desiree”. Back to blogging. Back to newsletters and press releases. Back to all of the things that are my (so called) real life. And it’s good to be back. It’s good to be home.

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