Robert Thomson This is what I do

Category “Writing”

Work begins on my new short film

Thursday, 29 April, 2010

It’s official. I’ve begun a new short film project.
After working on visual ideas for a week, I finally got down to beginning the script.
The tentative title is “Three Of Me” or possibly “Me Of Me,” but at this stage it’s hard to tell how it may change.
One of the two locations is set, and I [...]

Home Schooling

Monday, 29 March, 2010

I am recovering from a very strange and strong illness that began in my chest and lungs and then moved to my throat. I’ve missed two weeks of work and am becoming a little tired of looking at my apartment walls. Although my illness enabled to finish reading “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, as well [...]

My Father is Missing

Monday, 31 August, 2009

I wrote this on July 14, twelve days before my father died.
I look for my father in places he cannot be found
In the faces of strangers
Homeless men on park benches
Infants in strollers
In the half moon of night skies
I look for goodness and kindness and sleep unfulfilled
In the world I live in
And the place I belong
I [...]