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In Medias Res
Frequent readers of this eLetter will know that I love movies and serial television shows, especially ones that attempt to tell a grand story over a period of time. Some of them employ a literary technique called in medias res, which is Latin for “into the midst of affairs.” This refers to where the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of its beginning. The characters, setting, and conflict are often introduced through a series of flashbacks or through characters relating past events to each other. → Read more...
A Journey Always Begins With a Single Step
January 12, 2015
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Matt
The human experience is rife of many wonderful, scary, intoxicating, boring, daunting and mystifying events. It’s been my experience that many things that we go through do not lend themselves to easy classification of one simple emotion. For instance, the birth of my oldest child, Caleb, was an experience that was simultaneously exhilarating, terrifying, sublime and bewildering. It was an amazing goop of emotions that were mixed inseparably with each other. Such was my experience becoming a parent for the first time. → Read more...
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