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Life - all that and the farting

a nod to the most advanced beginners

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Jim Dalling
Feb 12, 2023
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I don’t know how to do this dance yet.

I’m still uncertain of the steps.

Who leads?

How does it move?

How do we move together?

Working on stage things were clear. The audience and their perspective didn’t necessarily shift on the fly in quite the same way.

Making Tee Vee is different.

Sometimes, the camera starts moving. I still don’t know what to do.

I outta ask

I need to tell you about olde clear eyes.

He is as as the moniker suggests, quite clear sighted. 

In this genre, he’s a viking.

He has the camera.

Sometimes he begins to move following my lead with the guests. Other times he moves around us.

I’m not always certain what to do. But I trust my gut and I trust his vision.

I frequently screw up. I’m a beginner.

Clear Eyes is not. Not here anyway.

But he puts up with me.

I love people’s who can tolerate beginners. 

He’s one of them. Funny thing though?

We’re all beginners 

Beginning again anew with each moment, breath, heartbeat and fuck up. Life - it’s all that and the farting. 

The most advance…

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