• MR: Do you prefer to get more creative direction or do you want complete freedom?

    BG: I actually like constraints. When I started casting in London, the budgets were often prohibitive. But I’ve always felt that the smaller the box, the more you have to get inventive—and the more solutions you need to find. 

    How to Cast for a Runway Show with Ben Grimes

  • But also because she knows that she and the photographer have already taken each other to the perfect and beautiful world. And that now it’s time to descend to the actual one. If they try to live in that other world for good, it will recede into the distance; it will be as if they’d never been there at all. She says goodbye, and they long for each other for the rest of their lives.

    Bittersweet
    Susan Cain

  • Scenes From a Marriage, Ep 4 (1973) 

  • Goodbye First Love (2011)

  • Orthodox Christianity distinguishes between wine and intoxicating liquor or spirits, and bans the latter.

    The Bible says: “Do not not mix with winebibbers.. for drunkards.. become poor. ” (Prov. 23:20)

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, So Many Years with the Problems of People Part III

  • Many, if not most, alcohol and drug addicts eventually free themselves from the clutches of addiction on their own, without therapeutic help

    Self-change from problems with alcohol and drugs: A scoping review of the literature since 2010
    Florian De Meyer, Nellie Bencherif, Clara De Ruysscher, Lou Lippens, Wouter Vanderplasschen

  • “Someday alcohol will stop working for you. And you are left in this horrible hamster wheel of chasing something you used to know, and it never comes back.”

    —Janelle Hanchett

  • They say the drink is not worth all the pain it eases

    i_o & Lights – Prayers

  • He sympathized with me and said, ‘The same thing happened to my own brother and what do you think helped him? His spiritual father gave him a copy of the Gospels with strict orders to read a chapter without a moment’s delay every time he felt a longing for wine coming over him. If the desire continued he was to read a second chapter, and so on. That is what my brother did and at the end of a very short time his drunkenness came to an end.

    The Way of a Pilgrim

  • One of the most famous sidetracks is pride.  Having overcome an over-eating problem or a drinking problem or an addiction or bad habit of one sort or another, instead of being humbly thankful for one’s new life, the reformed person becomes puffed up at his or her success.  In such cases, the person may be worse off than before, from a spiritual perspective.  And this pride can take on a whole range of hues and tones so that it does not appear as pride, so that it seems to be nothing more than so-called self-esteam or a new passion to be better and better at fitness, or healthy eating or even preaching the evils of self indulgence.  Pride hides behind many masks.

    —Fr. Michael Gillis, A Small Affliction Born For God’s Sake