It seems like a lifetime ago since my wife and I moved to Los Angeles so I could pursue a career as a screenplay writer. You can kinda, sorta read about it here.
I experienced a modicum of success in Hollywood, but not the kind I had hoped.
Before we moved West, my wife and I made a deal: Once my name appeared on the silver screen, we would come home.
I came close — several times.
However, be it the Writer’s Strike, egos, whathaveyou, something always impeded my ultimate success. Eventually, I had to come home to take care of family. Since I did so, without keeping my promise, there has always been that emptiness; that sense of what if…
Recently, my cohort in Cali, John “Rusty” Proctor, has taken a scene from a project he and I co-created, called Faith Ties, and turned it into a short that has been making it big. Here’s a clip.
Around the same time, my wife noticed a change in me.
“You seem happier,” she told me. “More focused.” More focused on me, I believe she meant to say.
It’s all kind of ironic since recently I’ve let go of so much. Letting go and letting God, you might say. It’s kind of ironic because Faith Ties is simply a story about “Letting go and letting God.”
The truth was that I appeared more focused because I had stopped following rainbows and looking for greener pastures.
Not that I was giving up. I’ll never give up!
But by letting go and letting God, the Almighty gave me new lenses to clearly see what I should have been seeing all along — that I was already standing on the greener side of life and I had found my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow on the day I said “I do” to my beloved wife! (He also gave me two beautiful Leprechauns to go along with my good fortune.)
All that self-awareness, however, and I still wasn’t feeling like I was really home.
Maybe that’s because I have always felt that my promise, to come home, was truly unfulfilled — until now!
Now, my name finally has appeared on the silver screen.
And there something else I discovered. The more I let go, the more my name keeps appearing on screens in film festivals across the nation.
So yes, I’m noticeably happier.
I’m noticeably happier because finally … I’m home!
James Henry is also the author of Corporation YOU: A Business Plan for the Soul, 
‘Twas, Hail Mary series, and two children’s books: The Second Prince and Klaus: The Gift-giver to ALL! To contact James or book an interview, please contact Mark of Goldman/McCormick PR at (516) 639-0988 or Mark@goldmanmccormick.com.
Postscript: If you think the short film Faith Ties – The Alley is tearing it up, wait until the complete film comes out in 2021! I’ll keep you posted.
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