I officially joined Gareth's project 2 weeks later.
The project was called Second Start. It followed people who chose a new direction midway through life. I handled editing and narrative structure, while Gareth operated the camera.
We traveled through several small towns around Ravenport and filmed a 50-year-old truck driver learning to paint, a former lawyer who opened a bookstore after a divorce, and an engineer who left a job in the Meridian Tech Corridor to grow mushrooms.
Their stories were all different, but they had one thing in common: at some point, each of them had decided to stop lying to themselves.
While we were filming the third story, Gareth turned the camera toward me.
"You should say something too."
I instinctively moved out of frame. "I'm not the subject."
"You are
