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Starfish

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I watched a clam swim away from under a starfish.  Apparently, somehow, the starfish is the natural predator for these little shelled dudes.  They wrap their legs around it, then break the muscles holding the shell together and will spit out their stomach to eat the meat whole and then swallow the stomach back up.  Pretty gross if you ask me, but also kinda cool. Everybody's gotta eat right? Starfish are one of those beautiful mysteries of the ocean to me.  How they can lose a limb and then grow it back.  Pretty wild.  I saw one that had lost two of its extremities and already had little nubs growing in. Resilience.  How do you show it?  How do you manage to bounce back after a disappointment?  I guess it depends on the situation.  Matters of the heart usually lead to emptying ambre-filled glasses or eating a tub of ice cream right?  Preliminary measures to retrieving your grace. It's a process we must all go through, and one we experience countless times over the cours

Dates

Oh hey, it's July, and I haven't posted in well over a month.  That's a long stretch for me but my fingers are ready to start typing again. In fact, all kinds of stories have been implanting themselves in my head, so this blog may be taking on a different flave for a while. All month long, almost every day that I look at the date (I'm on vacation, so sometimes I don't bother), but each day that I've noticed, my brain registers it as an important date.  Much like you acknowledge it's someone's birthday before you wish them a happy one, the days in July sound important to me.  July 18th, today the 21st, etc.  Nothing particularly exciting is going on, but I can only figure that down the line, this will have been an important time in my life, for whatever reason. When we started shooting Ogoki, we being a collective of awesome actors, comedians, directors, writers and geniuses, I was having deja-vu all weekend.  In my existential opinion, deja-vu occu