{"id":2342,"date":"2014-12-05T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:09:19","slug":"an-epiphany-prompt-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/prompts\/an-epiphany-prompt-117\/","title":{"rendered":"An epiphany . . . Prompt #117"},"content":{"rendered":"

* “An epiphany is a sudden realization of a significant event. At that special moment, a life meaning becomes clear to you \u2014an insight into your personality, a discovery of something you value or believe in, an acute sense of where you are in life.<\/p>\n

Here’s an Epiphany Tale one elder told to her family:<\/p>\n

\"Lake.1\"<\/a>I must have been around seven or eight. It was summer, and we were visiting my aunt Clara up at Crystal Lake. I was alone, lying on my back by the banks of the lake, looking up at the sky, and I had my harmonica in my mouth. I was just breathing through it, in and out, not playing a melody, simply breathing. And suddenly, I was overcome with this wonderful feeling of connection to everything in the world. I’d say now it was a spiritual feeling. I listened to the sound my breathing made through that harmonica, and I thought, I am part of the noise of the world. I am part of everything . . . I’ve had that feeling again, from time to time, throughout my life \u2014 a certainty that I am part of the universe \u2014but that was my first time. I think that knowledge is one reason I’ve never found the idea of dying very frightening.”<\/p>\n

Your turn: Write about an epiphany you or your fictional character has had.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Excerpt: From Family Tales, Family Wisdom<\/em> \u2014\u00a0 How to gather the stories of a lifetime and share them with your family, <\/em>by Dr. Robert U. Akeret with Daniel Klein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* “An epiphany is a sudden realization of a significant event. At that special moment, a life meaning becomes clear to you \u2014an insight into your personality, a discovery of something you value or believe in, an acute sense of where you are in life. Here’s an Epiphany Tale one elder told to her family: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single_prompt","format":"standard","meta":{"selected_specialist_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2451,2452,2453,638,924,2215,2042,2053],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-daniel-klein","tag-dr-robert-u-akeret","tag-family-tales-family-wisdom","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15653,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}