i picked up a movie from the library, william and the windmill, thinking it was a kids movie, but it was a documentary on a kid in malawi who made windmills out of bikes and junk and saved his village from drought. then i recalled seeing the title the boy who harnessed the wind, and i watched that. it's the movie version. the kid seemed sad in the documentary, as he went on to write a book and go to dartmouth, and i felt like there was something that the director couldn't extract. between the two films there is still something missing, the documentary director tried to open up william while his mentor was absent, and the mentor urged william to sign the contract for the film rights to tell his story, with the caveat that the film could change the story any way they wished, but i think everyone wanted to tell the story of harnessing the wind, and the untold part was too unwieldy, and painful. both films were good. i just felt another story was left behind, the one i kept wanting to know. the story was painful enough, it's not that the most painful parts were left out, though that is likely true, but that william seems a cipher that we're not allowed to see revealed. but it ended in education and the end of starvation, which is story enough. still i keep wondering what was going on in william's mind.

the light from the window draws the flying insects and the spider uses the window to build the web and each day it gets full, until the wind tears it, and the spider starts again.