Epiphany Anyone?
The palm to forehead moment when you realized.

Usually the insight comes slowly. Weeks, months even years go by before you realize you: love, hate, decide to leave, respect someone. Quick decisions are usually made after passing the tincture of time.
Rapid recognition of most emotion comes quickly only in books and movies. After all, an author only has 4 or 5 hours of the reader’s attention and for movies less than that.
You have a lifetime.
Unless you’re celebrates Salvator Dali and Mia Farrow
The New York Times reported that Mia’s beloved father had just passed away due to a sudden heart attack. Mia was alone and presently a resident of the Big Apple. It was 1973, the year Farrow met Dali. An unlikely relationship developed between the teenager and the sexagenarian.
The report went on to quote Mia as saying Dali, “Didn’t engage in sex because it was violent — showers were too.” This article put to question just what kind of relationship was going on between the actress and the famous eccentric painter.
Dali and Farrow were seen everywhere together. Their unusual association was high profile and fodder for gossip columnists.
A number of years ago, I saw Salvador Dali interviewed on the Merv Griffen Show (ABC).
The master interviewer, Griffen questioned the eccentric Dali about his unlikely connection with the teenage Mia Farrow.
Dali relayed the following story:
To celebrate Mia’s 18th birthday I blew her a clear glass vase with a live mouse in it. At the base of the vase I formed a feeding tube. The mouse could be kept alive by having someone (Mia) put food and water through the feeding tube.
I signed the vase. Because it had my signature, it was appraised at $150,000.
I wrapped the vessel with a birthday card and the appraisal included. I brought the present over to Mia’s basement apartment on her birthday.
Mia unwrapped the vase, read the card and the appraisal. She hugged me.
As Mia reached up to put her vase on a shelf in her living room, she noticed the mouse imprisoned.
Without hesitation, she picked up the vase, marched out the door and smashed it on the sidewalk, freeing the mouse.
I thought $150,000 to free a mouse.
It was then I knew — I had respect for Mia.
Salvador Dali and Mia Farrow continued their odd relationship until he died at age 84. Their liaison survived Mia’s marriages to Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn, 4 biological children, 10 adopted children and a long term relationship with the talented but notorious Woody Allen.
The vase, of course, would be worth millions now given the dramatic escalation in value of Dali’s work.
I wonder if the mouse shared Dali’s epiphany when he hit the sidewalk and scurried away?
This story was peviously self published