I'm Not A Craftsman Of Graphics Or

There's Great Sadness And Life Doesn't Work Out Like You Would Want, On A Lot Of Levels, But There's No Need To Feel All Alone. This Happens To Everybody, So There's No Self-pity. This Is The Ride That Humans Are On, And All Of It Is Essential For Our Natural Part Of It.

To Me It's Like, Every Time I'm A Director, Like Today, You're The Captain Of The Ship, So You Better Dress Like It. You're The Host Of The Party.

My Dad's Gay Experiences Really Had A Very Positive Influence On Me And My Straight Relationships - How To Better Accept All The Weirdness And Ambiguity And Ups And Downs And Paradoxes. I Knew From The Beginning I Was Writing About Love.

My Experience, With Both My Parents, Is That Grief Has A Lot Of Down, Sad Things, But I Was Also Really Emotionally Raw, In The First Year After Each Of Them Passed. Flowers Smelled More Intensely, My Relationships Were Hotter, And I Was More Willing To Risk. I Was Going For It A Lot More. I Was 'unsober' And I Wasn't Playing By My Rules.

As A Son Of A Man Who Pretended To Be One Thing For 33 Years Of My Life And Then Was Another Thing, The Questions Of 'what Is Real' And 'what Is Not Real' Are Very Blurrily Vivid To Me.