“Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only at the moment after their photos had been snapped, the moment their smiles dissolved. It's genius and heartbreaking. I think about her film when I explore the places the strips malls meet the wild world they are eating up.” ThinkingWorldMomentsFilmWonderfulGeniusEatingFountainHeartbreakingShort Films Author:Samantha Hunt
“I think I write mostly about death and so it is interesting to hear how often people think I'm writing about pregnancy and birth. Though of course they are two sides of the same coin. Both when I was pregnant and now as a mother, I am consumed with thoughts of death. This is a strange role in parenting. The death guardian.” PeopleThinkingWritingMotherInterestingStrangeBirthPregnancyPregnantGuardian Author:Samantha Hunt
“Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.” IfsThinkingWorldRealDreamHappensWaitingWonderfulOrdinaryExtraordinaryThings HappenYour DreamsAwakeDreamerMistakenSuggestingExtraordinary Things Book:The Invention of Everything Else Source: The Invention of Everything Else