[draft 7-3-2025, added more notes. 7-15-2025 added another scene sketch.]
(e)scape for free from reality
in moving from low to high,
we see our pathway as true,
and that we are in the right.
yet forever left nearby,
as if they are out of view,
still the shadows of the night
– the gods need not take our sight …
Here’s a rough sketch of a possible screenplay: The Shadowscape – Episode 1. A dark comedy. Homages to The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror. No peak of eternal light.
[draft 6-18-2025]
(e)scape for free from reality
“you’re welcome to pass,
but step quickly inside,
you’re letting out the darkness
which i hope you can abide”
– step quickly inside …
[Home office, interior, partial daylight – SoCal “June gloom”]
Sitting at a desk, an aspiring screenwriter is working on his laptop computer, struggling with writing on the screen. (In clunkier days, he might be on a typewriter and repeatedly tearing out the page, crumpling & tossing it away, eh.) Nearby on top of the desk is a printed document. Clearly visible on its title page is printed:
Continue reading THE SHADOWSCAPE – Episode 1
I like the use of the word alignment in this article for bridging meaning & purpose via storytelling.
But, without compassion & insight, might such reframing & narrative produce dark purpose? – e.g., vindictiveness [1].
• Psychology Today > “The Story You Tell Yourself” by Jordan Grumet M.D., The Regret-Free Life (May 8, 2025) – We are “narrative beings.”
Continue reading The stories we tell ourselves – anchoring purposeHappiness isn’t a destination; it’s a synthesis.