Happy anniversary! Last weekend we celebrated mom’s passing. Not joyous of course ... but reflective. And inspiring. A wee reflection in the hills ... re-reading of letters from friends ... and some new insights into the characters in the last lost sister.
The script is now 26 pages long .... Slow but steady. Loss does seem to be the most present image. But as the scene which recounts the fictitious meeting between Alice and Mom unfolds it is becoming clear that the courage to search ... and be prepared for the find ... is also emerging.
And this provides a nice corollary to the theme Alice elucidated in the Virginia Quarterly review interview in July 2006 ...
Everyone thinks about how they can get out from under (life’s burdens), get away. I like to point the action in one way and then take it into a direction that is not expected. Maybe people find out that they have to get away, or people think they’ll get away, and they don’t get away in the way they think they will.
There is a tricky paradox here that may hold the key to this drama and it’s unfolding. Loss provokes both running away – pain, fear, rejection – and searching – curiosity, resolution.
Where do they lead?
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