Thank you for this, Jan. Illuminating and funny too (knocking on Herod’s door)! My epiphany - literally - was realizing that I wanted to write. Be A Writer. It happened to me when I was on an acupuncturist’s table simulating a pin cushion. Did not expect that going in. But it was, as you say, only the beginning. No magic wand. The road from there was (and still is) hard, scary, exhilarating, unsettling, and confirming. With lots of shitty first drafts without which there would be no final versions. My epiphany was like a trail head: “Start here, and I promise you the journey will be worth it.”
Thank you for this, Jan. Illuminating and funny too (knocking on Herod’s door)! My epiphany - literally - was realizing that I wanted to write. Be A Writer. It happened to me when I was on an acupuncturist’s table simulating a pin cushion. Did not expect that going in. But it was, as you say, only the beginning. No magic wand. The road from there was (and still is) hard, scary, exhilarating, unsettling, and confirming. With lots of shitty first drafts without which there would be no final versions. My epiphany was like a trail head: “Start here, and I promise you the journey will be worth it.”
Epiphany:
"the Magi saw the star and it still took them twelve to fifteen months for it to lead them to Jesus."
It seems to me that time as an ally to our epiphanies if only we allow it.