What’s the difference between the two forms?
In movies, directors and producers are allowed to change the script, sometimes drastically. They can even put out multiple versions of the same movie. What they are crafting as artistans is the final experience of watching the movie. The writer of the screenplay works within this overall purpose. His [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Movie vs. Stageplay
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Art, Film, Movies, Moving Pictures, Play, Plays, Screenplay, Screenwriting, Show Biz, Show Business, Stage Plays, Stageplays, Theater, Theatre on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Orthodox Worship With a Toddler
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Child Rearing, Children, Church, Greek Orthodox Church, Husbands, Marriage, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Church, Raising Children, Religion, Sunlight on April 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m trying to get back in the habit of writing every day but I feel that I have less to say than ever before.
My days are busier now. My husband rises at 7:00 and naturally, so do I. He used to get up at 8:00 but in the landscaping business summer is busier and the [...]
Reflection
Posted in Orthodox Christianity, tagged Bright Week, Change, Christianity, Church, Church Services, Divine Liturgy, Grace, Holy Week, Orthodox Church, Orthodoxy, Ponderings, Progress, Religion on April 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The more that happens and becomes clear to me, the less there is to say. It would be easy to speak of the unease I feel at certain trends in the Church; far more difficult to speak of the immeasurable river of grace I find there. Easy to criticize individual or parish or even jurisdictional [...]
Remember Me
Posted in Poems, tagged Christ, Christianity, Death, Easter, Literature, Memory, Orthodox Christianity, Passion, Poetry, Words, Writing on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I suffer death
his hard blue sting
his theft of breath
his hammering
Yet though worlds fade
before my eyes
I’m not thus made
the thing that dies
I am the wounds
I am the tree
I am the sin
Remember me
A Snowy April Day
Posted in Poems, tagged Art, Colors, Gray, Green, Literature, Poetry, Seasons, Spring, White, Winter on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gray and white, gray and white and gray;
That which has died should not so frisky play
The winter’s ghost ought not so lightly fling
Snowflakes as in Autumn, now in Spring.
Green can be the color of a blade of grass;
The liquid tint of antique glass;
A hue that hovered in our glade
Upon the trees, between the trees, the [...]