Connecting to yourself

I believe that during a performance there is a connection between the storyteller and audience. Maybe not every time, but it can happen, and does. Tricia described storytelling as also connecting her to her many selves:

It's almost like an

oral meditative experience.

I do believe

we all have our

plane of selves,

you have your physical self,

your spiritual self,

your emotional self,

and yourself at eight, 10, 12, 40.

Somewhere in there

when the selves come out

and you have this

self-revelation of,

"Oh that's what that meant to me" or

"I just said that"

and it's like,

all of those selves,

all of a sudden

there is a kumbaya moment

right then

for a nanosecond

and then it is over.

Then you go,

"I just time traveled to my

inner child,

to my future self

and I'm accepting myself right

where I am at right now."