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Re: your number 5, "All the projects I will never make":

I'm simultaneously haunted and driven by this quote from W. H. Auden: "God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good."

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Thanks for sharing that, James. How do we use our life well? Keep on keeping on!

Congrats on "Not Losing You"!

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Thanks, Ted! Couldn't have done it without your encouragement and support along with 600 other supporters. On YouTube and TikTok, a combined one million views! Not too shabby. I'll post the link here so readers know what we're talking about.

"Not Losing You" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B0P0Uj6h_SY?feature=shared

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I’d like to also retire the use of “consume” as in “consuming content.” Just so many bad “C” words!

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“JUMPING FENCES” by THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL from their debut LP Music From The Unrealized Film Script DUSK AT CUBIST CASTLE released Independently in 1996 on Elephant 6 Records, a key groundbreaking release that merged Beatles, Beach Boys, Big Star, Psych, and 4-Track cassette Home Recording Technology as part of the newly formed Elephant 6 Collective out of Athens, Georgia.

https://youtu.be/qw_UcCwUjMI?si=d4P8u1fnR9-4Y_uq

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I signed up for Vanessa's Substack "A Question of Peace" and watched "Citizens Collective for Democracy," the 4 minute 36 second video. Peace is the answer, not just the question. The Hope for Film is to help Film usher in the change the world needs.

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