Author: David Schwarm

  • Beau is Afraid

    I drove up to see my mom in Bandon, OR just before seeing this film with Jack and Kate for Jack’s Birthday. It is a lot & I am not sure I am completely on board for all of it at this time.

    I Overture

    Therapist office, apartment, city scape hell, notes under the door, medicine, sleeping, late for airport, convenience store, accident, police officer, man falls on him in the tub, tattoo man chases him, phone book.

    II Suburban recovery

    Couple, surgeon, soldier, son, daughter, dinner, rooms, computers, “stop implicating yourself”, stoner drive, friend with phone, time travel home survelience, oldest patient, drive home, inconvenience, honesty, phone call,

    III Trip

    Running, trip and fall, long play rephrase, comminunity of artists, founder in the tree, preganant support, glass in head, tracker, explosion, play is the thing, longest section (I think).

    IV Home, again

    Fake funeral, beautiful home, girl friend, mothers success, backwards time line, she waited, death, attic,

    V Trial

    Boat ride, audience, coliseum full of water, lawyer, prosecution, replay on the stadium screens

  • April 25

    Humility is not self-contempt but the truth about ourselves coupled with a reverence for others; it is self-surrender to the highest goal

  • April 24

    “To do God’s Will until death, that is the inner heart of all holiness.

  • April 23

    To pass from sadness to joy requires a birth, a moment of trail and labor, for no one ever mounts to a higher level of life without death to the lower.

  • April 22

    To every Christian…there comes the supreme moment when he must choose between temporal pleasure and eternal freedom. In order to save our souls, we must often run the risk of losing our bodies.