DMP Pitch

 In her interview Kim shared a lot of wonderful perspective about the process of limbo, she talked about how sometimes what we see as limbo as made up of a lot of small things that add up to culminating life bullet points/titles/acomplishments, but that doesn't mean all the little things weren't worth honoring or weren't actually big things. I think we could do some intersting things exploring the space of limbo. We could enact some little things that add up to a big things. Whether it's obtaining for a degree and we can show studying, stress, fun, etc. 

Another moment I really loved that could make for a powerful visual is when she described going to watch the sunset at a difficult time. We talked about how the setting sun itself is a comforting and affirming type of limbo. It happens every day, it happens this way, things go on. She talked about how making a ritual of the earth's rituals was grounding. 

One final image that I was struck with was when she described the physical, tangible feeling of having a lot of people praying for her family when her Dad was in a coma. I picture it several ways, but one is that one person is lit, and they are praying in the center, and others around them aren't lit - because we don't always know who is praying for us - but they are surrounding the pray-er with a hand reached out to touch their shoulder or something. Shrug. 

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