just breathe: the years of labor & unexpected self discovery

As I mentioned before it took me years to finally focus on this piece. The story of THE GIRL reached a turning point one night on Manhattan's Lower East Side, I believe it was November 2008, my birthday month, but after my birthday a time that I generally feel most productive and or a spurt of motivation. Anyway I was listening to “Breathe” and internally processing each beat each high and each low of the song, all the while following THE GIRL in my mind as she moved about, and at a particular point felt that she had a moment of discovery, a singular instance that turned her day or even life in a different direction and the beauty of this moment was that it came from absolutely no where. It had no rhyme or reason, it had no beginning or end, it made no sense to the normal flow of current circumstances yet it gave me the biggest jolt and sense of satisfaction, it nearly “took my breath away” and as a result two things happened, first I shed a tear of joy for the character for having allowed herself to let go during this occasion, then I shed a tear for myself for finally nailing the key point of this story; the insanity all made perfect sense!! The insanity of that moment that THE GIRL was experiencing as well as the insanity and unexpected happenings of my reality…..it meshed. The second thing that happened was that I finally was able to begin getting serious about telling this story; I saw the importance of sharing this piece with the world…