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Dinner tonight: Pasta, with lentils, bacon, onion, garlic and tomato sauce. Other ingredients: A baby girl falling from the stairs. She has a bump, but seemed to be alright for the rest. A long conversation about Dutch politics (obviously). Would it be appropriate to disregard a party even though they get a lot of votes? Is democracy a positive thing? We spoke so loud one of the kids hugged his dad and told him not to look at me anymore. Also: Money talk. And a project we've been talking about for years. They have hours of footage of a couple traveling the world in the sixties bought at a fleamarket. We want to make it into a feature length film, with a voice over. (It's a couple who never had children, and who we, the filmmakers, don't know. What happens when stories aren't told? When a bloodline dies? Where do the memories go? etc.) We still haven't developed this film. Again. We've been talking about this for years. Perhaps some things are better conversation topics than anything else. Then we listened to music in silence for a while.