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| Actor Nikki Storm prepares to film a scene in "Eyes to See" at Blue Cloud Ranchi |
Filming has started on the movie inspired by our Haiti team! Eyes to See stars Matthew Marsden (Rambo and Transformers) and Garcelle Beauvais, a native Haitian known (NYPD Blue, Franklin & Bash). The film is about a photographer forced to choose between doing his job and helping people after the earthquake.
Nine months after the disaster, orphanage workers tell us the children are coping despite immense suffering. Grief though, finds a way to assert itself. unstoppable tears. pain. anger.
Grief still feels foreign to me. Being a reporter demands staying emotionally disconnected in order to handle the violence and death of the lens through which we see the world.
A few years ago the news reported that a mom had thrown her three babies into the San Francisco Bay. The tide swept away the tiny bodies before anyone could save them. Divers were searching by the Golden Gate Bridge near where I lived at the time.
I walked the Bay half-hoping to find a miracle. "God, you've made me unfit for news," I wept. Away from the crime beat, I was discovering tears I'd never shed no matter how many murders I saw.
Nine months after the disaster, orphanage workers tell us the children are coping despite immense suffering. Grief though, finds a way to assert itself. unstoppable tears. pain. anger.
Grief still feels foreign to me. Being a reporter demands staying emotionally disconnected in order to handle the violence and death of the lens through which we see the world.
A few years ago the news reported that a mom had thrown her three babies into the San Francisco Bay. The tide swept away the tiny bodies before anyone could save them. Divers were searching by the Golden Gate Bridge near where I lived at the time.
I walked the Bay half-hoping to find a miracle. "God, you've made me unfit for news," I wept. Away from the crime beat, I was discovering tears I'd never shed no matter how many murders I saw.
Today I was thinking about something a friend wrote while keeping vigil at his dad's bedside. "Jesus wept," he'd written, "but not tears of despair."
Jesus wept. The shortest verse in the Bible.
And a thought came to me that made grief ok: sometimes tears precede miracles.
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Jesus wept. The shortest verse in the Bible.
And a thought came to me that made grief ok: sometimes tears precede miracles.
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