2009

By 2009 I found myself a little discouraged from trying to get BETWEEN LIFETIMES funded, and after a few rejections, this interesting French Lady, Philippine, showed up in my life and we headed off to Sayulita, Mexico, thirty miles north of Puerto Vallarta, where we spent a good part of 2009 and some of 2010. But Mexico by the Pacific ocean, as wonderful as it can feel, was not for me. After months, it can feel like a "one-way ticket to Palookaville". The mountains speak their own language, very foreign to skyscrapers. And the sea wants to be quiet. It only understands its own roar.  Lucas lived in Santa Fe with his mom, so I had to come back and forth. Also my friends Mary and Marie who may as well be family to me, live in Santa Fe, and of course Lauri Hakola, my business partner, friend and Director of Photography, and chosen brother. This traveling back and forth proved to be too hard. Eventually, both Philippine and I had to come back; I for Lucas and she, for her son, Sage.