“One night as I girl I spied my grandma and one of her sisters outside, holding hands and singing, "Sprites of the night are we, are we. Singing and dancing joyfully." It was witchy and wonderful because it meant there was power in joy. They were not afraid of the night because they were giggling. I am very interested in finding the surprising boundaries, for instance, where do joy and fear meet?” JoyNightGirlWonderfulSingingDancingBoundariesNot AfraidGrandmaHolding HandsMy Grandma Author:Samantha Hunt
“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 am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.” WritingBookEyeRememberTeachWonderfulForgotten 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
