Unbraiding: Actor Producer Father: A Story in Three Strands, (Paperback)

<b>Actor</b>: wildly successful by all counts. <b>Producer</b>: blockbusters and critical acclaim. <b>Father</b> to a seven year old daughter: desperately unraveled, a work in progress. <i>Can he pull this story together after the divorce?</i> <b>With the help of three Hollywood hairdressers, one long night of practice and a few dozen bobby pins, he might just get it right.</b> <p>In the short story "<b>Unbraiding</b>," a successful actor and producer navigates the vulnerabilities of fatherhood and divorce while trying to master a complex hairstyle for his young daughter. Following the story, his struggle to balance perfectionism with emotional presence is mirrored in the prose poem, "<b>Cast Their Whispers to the Void</b>," which advocates for dropping the weight of gossip and external judgment. By casting aside social projections and internal criticisms, the<b> lyrical spell-breaking language</b> opens to a limitless creative neutrality where authentic sense of self is timeless and accessible. </p><p>The <b>UNBRAIDING</b> collection celebrates the passion and dedication of filmmaking while showing how authentic connection and self-love flourish when we let go of rigid roles to embrace a more fluid, benevolent identity.</p><ul><li><i>"No edge. No underlying cause. Neither they nor them. I cannot be charted, loved or abandoned because I'm all of these at once. The guilt and innocence woven through the heat of my existence - in the beam of pure attention now dissolves.</i></li><li><i>"Between each thought, a void holds space in which no script has yet been written and everything that I am is possible. There's a reason the planets as we know them turn out round and spherical. We aren't meant to anchor to just one beginning, nor ever to an end."</i> -Laurie Perez </li></ul>Together, "<b>Unbraiding</b>" and "<b>Cast Their Whispers to the Void</b>" pack a remarkable amount of refreshing philosophical substance into a brief space, beautifully illustrating the shift from relying on an "unrelenting drive" to learning how to "trust compassion" and find enduring confidence in the "fertile void."

• Unbraiding: Actor Producer Father: A Story in Three Strands, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798255535026
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-04-08
• Page Count: 54