The Days Are Long, But the Years Are Short.

Of everything I’ve ever created, I think my one-minute video The Years Are Short is the thing that resonates most with people.

It’s even more poignant now—my daughter Eliza, the little girl in the story, is seventeen years old! Sunrise, sunset.

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