I may have mentioned I've had quite a year.
If I knew you well enough and I were to tell you the full story, the focus would be three moments.
Ordinary moments or even objects that reveal far more because of their context.
The moment myself and my two children, on our first holiday as a three, not four, ran into ocean, the cold cleansing our cares and worry away for a bit as it took our breathe away. The same as every year, but with a person missing.
Doing repeat, steep, uphill repeats on my bike for an hour. Starting with mind broken and body intact. Gradually flipping this with every repeat until it was the body broken and the mind restored. The same as many days for me, but now the context was my mind and what it has been going through, not the transient pain in my legs or burning lungs. .
A Christmas tree bought alone.
These moments or images are, according to Bobette Buster, the Gleaming Detail.
Moments and images of absolute clarity that reveal the absolute essence of a story.
It's the bicycles in front of the moon in ET.
It's how the first thing women liberated from Belsen did was put lipstick on.
It's 'Luke I am Your Father'.
It's Rocky running up the steps in Philadelphia.
So what will be Gleaming Detail in your next presentation? Your next creative briefing? The ideas you're helping build?
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