A podcast about movie making and the scifi featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). Daughter of God, Volunteers, Episode 031, all about getting the most out of giving.

Howdy, mi hermanas e hermanos, soy Dan Kelly, escritor y director y hablo un poco español. Gracias por su atención.

Y, this is the Daughter of Godcast, stories of the making of the post apocalyptic romantic comedy featurette, Daughter of God, 11, well maybe 12 years in the making since this gentle release continues through 2017. Pre-production and primary shooting happened in 2006, but I cast the die  in 2005.

When I was a kid growing up in Pound Ridge, NY, my older teen brothers Steve and Mike helped me understand the anatomy of golf balls. I am not sure if today’s golf balls are made the way they were in the 70s, but back then, if you carefully removed the dimpled plastic cover, there’d be a single strand of rubber wrapped around and around. We would get in the family station wagon, grab the rubber strand and drop the ball out the back window. We would then drive the twisty, hilly roads, letting the golf ball skitter and unravel behind us. This usually required many miles of driving before the golf ball eventually unwound down to hard marble sized solid core. This is the sort of thing teenagers did before 1st person shooters and ubiquitous network porn.

Boys unraveling golf balls behind a station wagon on rural roads evokes a Ray Bradbury innocence. Then we all grew up to be a rocket captains on the Mars run, eventually raising our own little families in clean bungalows by lazy canals and red mountains. You can hit a golf ball pretty far on Mars.

We are revisiting the later half of 2012, more than half way through the history between way back when and the blossoming now. We’re dangling the DOG story out the back window of our station wagon, and I expect we’re going to unravel the whole thing, another 30 or so episodes ahead, if we account for my segues, diversions, dubious spiritual ramblings and ranty social commentary.

Here in 2017, we’re still making history, winding more rubber even as we unravel. That’s the space time continuum for ya.

I caught a cold a few days back which is the excuse I’m using for the delay of this week’s episode, I was hoping I could be a little more perky before recording. Plus 2012 had a lot going on. AND the DOG goings on in March and April of 2017 are inviting me to show up as more myself than ever.

Daughter of God’s gentle release is much bigger than this podcast and mostly invisible for now. In 10 or so weeks, I’ll be summarizing the wildness happening right now. Future episodes are being born even as these words nuzzle up to your cochleae.

In March 2 – 12 I drove back to NYC and then Philly for a series of re-unitings. I saw the Tai Chi family, my gorgeous Africans, met up with Dave Crowley and Darcy Peck of cowboy wedding and forest fire fame in episode 021, then drove down to Philly to see Marion, Jung Woong and their son Ari whose magic quilt encompasses all of Lake Michigan from Episode 025. I enjoyed urban camping in the Odyssey, complete with composting toilet. The habits of Hello World persisting, artifacts of a sustainable civilization insinuating themselves into our enhanced every day.