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If you haven’t watched Come See Me in the Good Light yet, I hope you will. Let it rearrange you.
I’m so grateful for these six extra minutes with Andrea.
Guardian Angel Fish by Andrea Gibson | Caption by Megan Falley
You don’t really understand what it means to be loved by a poet until the poet is gone and you are left with the words, and the love doesn’t feel gone at all.
Sometimes I am baffled by what Andrea was able to do with language. As I listen to this, there are lines that feel like they were written not just for the woman I was when Andrea wrote them, but for the woman sitting alone in a too-big bed, pressing play again and again now.
Glennon calls Andrea “The Poet Laureate of Heaven.” It’s so true. How they’ve managed to speak to me, to speak to us all, from that unknowable other side. How they seem to thin the veil. Or try to prove there is no veil at all.
This video is one of three additional pieces Ryan sent me last week.
People will wonder why it didn’t make it into the film. It wasn’t cut because it didn’t matter. It was cut because everything mattered. Our brilliant editor, Berenice Chavez, would beg Ryan to stop returning to Colorado. He’d fly in for b-roll and come back with whole breathing chapters.
There isn’t enough space in a feature film to hold every hour of a love like ours. Though heaven knows I’d watch all of it now.
If the film is the novel, this scene is the poem. Distilled. A direct route to the heart of it all.
Andrea says, “Anyone who has ever said poetry is frivolous has never needed someone to tell them something unspeakably hard, beautifully.”
That’s what our documentary is. Something unspeakably hard, told beautifully.
If you haven’t watched Come See Me in the Good Light yet, I hope you will. Let it rearrange you.
I’m so grateful for these six extra minutes with Andrea.
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