A few weeks ago when Sasha was
given the date of June 6, for his next interview, that date sounded familiar to
me. Took me a while to realize
that was the date 5 years ago when my friend Lou passed away. He and I had been friends since high
school. For the final month of his
life, I was at his hospital bedside nearly every night after work. I would then go home and email his
family and friends (many of whom were out of state) about the occurrences of
his day. He was no longer able to
speak which was agony for him since his PASSION was communication and film.
When I realized the COINcidence of
the June 6 date, I “talked” to Lou.
He was a good persuader when he was on Earth, so I asked him if maybe he
would assist on The Sasha Project from the Other side? Maybe “speak” persuasively to the Embassy interviewing agent
or something?
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Last week I received an email from a Ph.D. Student at
USC. He and his professor are
conducting research on “bloggers who update
their blogs frequently and write about the occurrences of their everyday
lives”. They plan to work with
15-20 persons and had searched many blogsites, before coming across mine. Also as part of this study, they are
filming a documentary “to bring attention to the human, and relatable,
side of our research…” I emailed
them asking for more details as well as sharing a few of my objectives for the
two blogs.
Today Sonia called and said that
the Human Interest part of the blog was just what she was seeking! The next step was to schedule the film
crew to come out to the Penny Palace.
After talking to her I wondered, “How/Why would a research team from USC
be ‘lead’ to our blogsite out of the thousands of potential options?” Then I remembered -- I had asked for
Lou’s assistance from the other side!
He was extremely proud of earning his B.S. degree in the Film School at
USC! COINcidence? Thanks Lou?!
2 comments:
It is ssooo great that there are people (like you) who have guts to be open for the rest of the world, creating their site-blogs, revealing their thoughts and divulging their family news to others... I think these people have a kind of courage to be open because they are honest and good people. There is nothing for them to be afraid or to shy about... But how many joyful minutes they bring to other good people reading their blogs, showing examples of goodness, compassion, forming groups of interests and binding them, connecting people with each other and even with those who passed away long ago... Frankly speaking, I wouldn't dare to do so, but through you, I have been involved, into the events on your blog :-)
Sasha
Wow Tina, this is awesome news!
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