I have been playing Aerial Boundaries by Michael Hedges on my stereo. Listening to this fantastic acoustical guitar CD has become routine for me this last 6 weeks. I just finished writing the screenplay for my book Waking on Sunday. It is now in the producers’ hands. It is their job to raise the money for production.
Michael Hedges, Aerial Boundaries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaIN13aDbCc
I remember the very first time I heard Aerial Boundaries. I was writing a philosophy paper late at night in a college house, while living with 4 roommates. His album was featured on a Cities97 radio show called “Windham Hill Spotlight.“ Typing into a first generation Apple Macintosh computer, I felt hope and sadness and uncertainty all at the same time. The year was 1986.
As I worked on this screenplay, I needed to connect with that young man from 1986. Having music and memories and reconnecting with this younger age allowed me to tell my story differently this time. The screenplay explores different themes than Waking did. It stretches the boundaries between sleeping and waking, past and future, and having all of one’s ages simultaneously in an ongoing journey of healing. The opening voiceover of the script is:
“I do not know where the boundaries are…between sleeping and waking, between past and future, or between living and dying. What I do know is that life and death are not opposites. They are partners traveling in the same belly.” For those who have read Waking, you already know what this foreshadows.
I can still feel that boy/man who first heard Aerial Boundaries and I am grateful. I cannot see him, or touch him or hug him. Instead, he travels with me in the “world” that lies just beyond my reach. I am not ready to let him go just yet. So I keep feeling him through this music.
What do you think ghosts really are anyway?
More on ghosts, memories, and screenplays coming soon.