fairy tale

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who liked to play make believe. She played dress up and pretend almost every single day.
The little girl's mommy would take her to see plays, and afterward meet the actors, and she was in awe. She also fell in love with movies.
One day the little girl realized, I want to do that, too.
It was a very confusing thing, this wanting to be an actor. It always is when one discovers what one is meant to do.
So she set off, head high, up this mountain. Sometimes she would fall and go rolling down the path, stubbing her toes and banging her head. Other times she would take great leaps and bounds, on fire with passion and adrenaline.
She met her best friend, who was also climbing this mountain.
Along the way were a lot of stepping stones, and a lot of crossroads. The girl (maybe not so little anymore) didn't know what path to take, what to do, how to keep climbing. She did the best she could. Every time, she did the best she could.
Each time that it got too steep and she became too tired of this path to carry on, wanting to give up but not being able to, unexpected things would come her way. God was very good to her and gave her lots of blessings. Here a play, there a short film, here a musical, there a workshop....
"My next goal is to be a lead in a play," she said one day.
That year, she was cast as the title character in a play.
"My next goal is to be a lead in a musical," the girl said next.
The very next year, she was.
Now it's the next year. The girl's next goal is to be in a movie. She's dreamed about that, wanted that, her whole life. A real, live, feature-length movie.

And she is.


(be back in a month, lovelies. xoxo)

Tell me, tell me, smiling child,
What the past is like to thee ?
'An Autumn evening soft and mild
With a wind that sighs mournfully.’

Tell me, what is the present hour ?
'A green and flowery spray
Where a young bird sits gathering its power
To mount and fly
away.’

And what is the future, happy one ?
'A sea beneath a cloudless sun ;
A mighty, glorious, dazzling sea
Stretching into infinity.’


-Emily Brontë-


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today, happiness is

a walk/run in the almost-rain-and-thunder-storm
a hawk floating suspended in the gray sky above my head
group IM chatting with some pretty amazing friends
doing the dishes
eating BLTs
making a ton of progress on script-work prep for filming
sitting in the grass outside in the heat talking on the phone
this town's July
watching a marathon and then a new episode of a TV show
listening to perfect music, both familiar and new
a really, really, really good book
the feelings of not knowing, of knowing, of accepting, of peace, of trust
Meg Cabot following me on twitter!