Rising Above

When I first met with Marcus Balewa in New York, We both knew that we would take a long walk together on a path, ranges across time and space to tell an incredible story within a story. It was a real drama, featuring culture, history, art, verse, myth despair, addiction, humor, redemption, faith, love and so much more besides; a truly incredible experience, chockfull of fascinating facts which only needed a writer's heart. Considering the things I had been through, people I had met, places I had been in the years of my writing and film making career, Marcus Balewa was just sitting there as a unique statute, talking about his life in such an expression of simplicity but there was a blade at his heart, a kind of suffering, and an awareness of that suffering. With his real estate empire, it might come down to money, but the tale was not about the money at all. Here is a wonderful Love Story from Ceyda Asli Farnsworth