"Have we met?" Short scene by Dana

Dialogue that ran through my head when driving home tonight generated out of real interactions and conversations I had this weekend ...

( Setting: Small college party in an apartment, about ten people present, girl sitting on balcony outside alone. Guy walks in front door shaking other guy's hands but keeps looking over at the girl outside. He decides to go over to her.)


Guy: Have we met before?

Girl: No, I don't think so.

Guy: You look really familiar.

Girl: Maybe I just have one of those faces.

Guy: No. No, I've never seen a face like yours. Where are you from?

Girl: I'm not from around here, I just moved to LA.

Guy: Yeah? How you likin' it?

Girl: ...I don't think LA is for me.

Guy: Why's that?

Girl: ( looks up at the night sky)You can't see the stars shining here.

Guy: ( keeps his eyes on her)I see something shining in front of me.

Guy and Girl share a shy smile.

Scene from my life #1, more to come.

If the butterfly doesn't land we don't see it's colors

In my acting class today we were doing an exercise where everyone had to run and jump over a bench, land with stillness, without adjusting, and strike a pose. The trick was to be light on your feet and land like a Cat not an elephant, be grounded take a stand. To stop judging yourself, stop thinking, be okay with where you land, where you are...like in improv when you say "yes but" you are accepting what has happened or what has been given to you and you work with it and MAKE it work. We have also been discussing archetypes, and how it will be helpful to discover what kind of archetype YOU are. Well, it was my turn to run and jump and my first attempt my professor just laughed at my landing as I curved around and ran back to the start knowing I needed to do it again. She yelled "You need to ground your feet into the floor! You're Spineless! This exercise determines your archetype."

"Shit."- Me

"...Dana for example, watching how she floats around the hallways of this building like a butterfly, her archetype is a Lover, moving from one place to the next, but if the butterfly doesn't land we don't see it's colors!"-Christine

"Did you hear that you're a butterfly, you're always floating around haha."- Alfredo

"...I've gotten that a lot before. That I need to more planted and sure of my self. More grounded...it isn't good."- Me

"Even butterflies stop and land on a flower every once in a while."-Alfredo

INTO THE WILD

Just a few things said in the film that I really like...

"Rather than love and money and faith and fame and fairness...Give me truth"- Thoreau

Some people feel like they don't deserve love, they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

The seas only gifts are harsh blows and the occasional gift to feel strong, now I don't know much about the sea but I do know that's how it is here and I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong,to measure yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions facing the blind deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

Innocence

Today I discovered that Innocence is a very captivating feature in someone.
When I think of little kids so pure and unknowing, smiling all day long, for some reason it makes me smile too. By innocence I don't mean being naive, I just mean that pure quality, it may be different for lots of different people but I think we should all try to embrace or hold on to what little of it we have left as we grow older.

Can innocence be restored?...

I say so.

You just need to find that something or someone who will make you feel like a kid again.