I have put up three posts in the past week (my first week of blogging).  Given my tendency to ruminate (I’m a ruminater…)  I have found commonality between these three experiences.  Here it is.

The three are: 1) delivering my Eureka moment at my college reunion, 2) watching Maiya Sykes on the Voice, and 3) seeing the movie At Middleton.  All three of these have stayed with me, which means they keep coming up in my mind, again and again.

What they have in common is that they are about people (including me) who somehow manage to break out of the routines (and emotional shackles)  of their daily lives, and for one brief shining moment express who they are in a clear and concise way.  My talk was four minutes long, and Maiya’s performance only two minutes.  But into these few minutes were concentrated the feelings from a lifetime, and the impact and reaction from others reflected that intensity. At Middleton showed in 90 minutes two people breaking free after a chance encounter, but poignantly having to return to their limited and limiting lives.

I wrote in my first post about telling the truth.  These are the kinds of truth-telling experiences that remind me how rich my life is.