Seeing with New Eyes

This past Sunday's episode of "This Is Us" created quite a stir. I would argue that it stole the Lombardi Trophy right out from under the Eagles. If you don't watch the show, then you are probably wondering what the fuss is all about. I've been trying to get my husband to watch it since the first episode. I almost had him that night. But he just couldn't dive in. Maybe he's afraid he will join the ranks of all the obsessed viewers. Or maybe he's just not willing to cry with me every Tuesday night. Whatever the reason, it's an incredible show with amazing talent. The writers weave past, present, and future together to open our eyes to the bigger story. It is clever and suspenseful. It is captivating and heartbreaking. So much life packed into a television screen. That's what good stories do. They draw in you as the reader, viewer, or listener, and make you a part of it. You find yourself feeling the emotions of the character. You can see a

Lauren Daigle has been on repeat around my house, in my car, and pretty much any time I write. So much so that my youngest might know her songs more than any TV show theme song. She wrote a song for the newest Blade Runner movie called Almost Human. Lauren explains how her newest song came about in the video above. I love hearing the story behind the story (or song).  Not sure why it is so fascinating. Maybe because it's fun to compare my own ideas of what I think the books, movies, or song lyrics are about. Or maybe I like to hear about the story behind the story because it reveals the person, her life, struggle, a little bit more. It peels back the facade of what she put out and lets you see the process to get to the end product. It makes the seemingly perfect outcome a bit more human, real. "Embrace human nature, where we are at until He comes. That makes us almost human" - Lauren Daigle So much of our life is spent seeing the end product and not a lot of how it