When I find a tv show that I like, I binge watch it. I finish an episode, and say “one more!”  Then I do that over and over, clamoring for more of the story.  

With movies, I tend to get bored. They’re too long.  There are a couple of movies I can watch over and over and never get tired of them. Ask my kids. They know the ones. 

Recently, I had a houseguest who brought her sleeping bag into my room, laid on my floor and listened to Flash Meridian. 

At the end of each episode, she called out “More!  More!  One more!”  She wasn’t familiar with the story, and through her, I was able to hear it in a new way.  I got to be an observer.  

I have said that the story writes itself, like the Ololian book does, and I found myself swept up with her.  The questions she asked brought a new dimension to the adventures, and I was moved by them in a way I didn’t expect. 

You know how I say that I can’t see a painting when I have a paintbrush in my hand?  I have to hang it on the wall and look at it casually, just seeing it for what it is, and not thinking of what I can do to it. That’s how my friend let me see my own story, and what a gift that was!

I recently recorded the audiobook, and you can listen to it if you want to at flashmeridian.com by clicking the audio files tab in the header… or bring your sleeping bag to my house, and I will listen with you.