Fatherhood

Well... My life is about to take another of those serious turns into the unknown. I guess it's best I chant my mantra a few hundred times this week.... "It's GREAT to be alive" My number two son will be born sometime between now and the next four days or so. We have decided to name him, Luke William.... However, Barbarella could change her mind again, you never know?

I must say I have gone through a mental and spiritual journey, the past 9 months, that has made me explore nooks and crannies of myself that I never dreamed existed. And I am still flabbergasted that I am standing at this particular threshold of life's adventure. If someone would have asked me 8 months ago if this how I wanted or thought things would turn out, I would have replied," No freaking way!" Two sons, two mothers, YIKES! Now that I find myself here... I know it's exactly where I am supposed to be and I am ready to fully embrace my new son with all my love....WOW It will interesting to see how Cole reacts to his little brother....

Little darling,
I feel that ice is slowly melting.
Little darling,
It seems like years since it's been clear.
Here comes the sun...
Here comes the sun,
And I say
It's alright.
~ George Harrison ~

Vietnam

I made this little film about 8 years ago called, "Reel On Vietnam". A documentary about Hollywood's portrayal of the American Vietnam War Veteran in cinema. Needless to say, my subjects had little good to say about Hollywood and the way tinsel town portrayed them in their movies. However, the little movie I made sprung a better idea for a documentary film on the same subject. The film I want to make now is about bringing together 8 men from both sides of history's conflict, put them all on a train from Saigon to Hanoi, stop along the way in the little villages that the main battles took place and have these Vietnamese and American Vets tell stories of the war and how they feel about it now. The Train, the old footage of the Vietnam war, the now beautifully healed villages, and most of all the stories these men will tell that may just change the minds of some of our young men and women from dying and fighting in the war we are now in, will make a fantastic movie.... I'm ready to do it now! The time has come. I will get funding this year and be shooting no later than 2006.

It's GREAT to be ALIVE!

War is over, if you want it. — John Lennon