We lack the hypnotic long form.

There is nothing wrong with small.

"I believe in little things."

"I'm just a little person."

Lines in little songs.

We live in the age of bytes. Small pieces. Moments. Sections. Clips. Parts.

As music lovers, we used to rave about albums. Today we enjoy tracks. The brush is getting smaller and smaller, and so we must paint more highly detailed things. You get 30 seconds to make a point.

I can mix metaphors because you are becoming more accustomed to chaos. Our minds are becoming more like that commercial for the Bing search engine: A stream of keyword consciousness.

That's fine. We deal. We adapt. We must think small. Marketing guru Seth Godin said, "Small is the new big." OK, fine, I'll overlook the Orwellian illogic of the statement to acknowledge your point. "Small is more powerful" is really what you mean.

And that's MY point. The reason small is becoming more powerful than big is because attention spans are shrinking. Also, our media "consumption" habits are becoming more omnivorous, more Old Country Buffet than five-course meal.

So we must paint upon the head of a pin. We must produce songs, not albums. Write poems and short stories, not tomes. Shoot clips, not films. Don't have sales presentations, have an elevator speech. I encourage you to do so. Greatness is possible in a single breath. Add up the breaths and you have a lot of great things. Your accomplishments might not relate to one another, but at least you will have managed to slip a stroke of genius into the popular consciousness edgewise.

Some things can't be expressed in a single breath. I tried to express my journey in pictures and videos and photos and sound clips, but it lacked the overall sweep of my journey. The set-up. The build-up. The climaxes. The resolutions.

You lose something in the lack of continuity. Without that hypnotic rhythm of unbroken prompts and suggestions, you can't see how this journey changed me.

I read somewhere that a story is all about how someone is changed by the events in the story.

A story is a line, not a series of dots. Guess that's why they call it a storyline.

I am going to have to write stories. Much work to do.

I was changed. I believe in something I didn't believe in before. I believe in trust. I believe in kindness to strangers. I believe in belief. I believe that other people believe in something.

Definitely going to have to write all this down.