All right, this is the screen running life. This is Meg Lafove. I'm here with producer

Extraordinary Jeff Graham. Just he and I today. I talk to you guys a lot about lava and

put your lava in your work and I'm just sitting in a pot of lava today on this week and I thought okay let's just go on air real quick with you guys and talk about it and kind of an experience that I had that I wanted to share with you guys.

I think it's relevant to artists, but also just to be vulnerable and

share with you because I keep asking you guys to do it so here I am doing it.

I'm wrapping up a project and it's by choice I'm a little bit out, but it's also the project is moving on

When whatever stage you're at when a project ends maybe it's because you finish the movie maybe it's because you've finished the movie maybe it's because you sold the script maybe it's because you were writing and they're bringing in another writer.

Maybe it's because there's a million reasons

that we as artists and writers can be done with a project.

Maybe you've decided just to,

you know, that you, it's not for you anymore,

that you've grown past the project and you're gonna put it in a drawer for a while.

But whenever you hit this place, sometimes it can feel like mourning.

It can bring up a lot of lava, especially if the

circumstance around it is maybe you know triggering or touching on or or kind of illuminating something from your past, your childhood, that was challenging.

In my case, and this is the lava bit. I pretty much grew up next door to my family until I was seven years old.

My mom had five kids. She had been an only child. She had five kids all under the age of eight and was just completely overwhelmed.

And there was an elderly neighbor couple next door who had never had children and I just

somehow ended up living there. I don't know. This was like before people thought about these things, I guess.

You know, my brothers and sisters were very jealous of me,

but, you know, looking back I can see that I didn't really understand at that young age why I wasn't part of my family,

like what was happening, why wasn't I living over there with them?

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