in film production and to make a documentary about our family’s experience of having a child with special needs. Since “Softening,” I’ve been slowly working on a film about my daughters: Emma, 13, and my youngest child, Willow, who is 5. This short film comes from that project but focuses specifically on the questions that Willow has asked me. Kids are endlessly curious and ask about how life works, the ineffable mystery of it, all the time. Just the other day Willow asked, “Why are you on your phone again, Mom?” and I said, “Sometimes you ask me something that is so beautiful I have to write it down.”

Source: New York Times March 21, 2017 19:41 UTC