My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other momentswe hear a word that sticks in our mindor maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only brieflywe share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queenor we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station. And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collectioncertain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didnt even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being realthis clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives.

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