Well, it's happened again, the "Storytelling Fairies" patted me on the back today with another complimentary Synchronicity coincidence.
Within hours of posting a proposal to NPR's This American Life, suggesting a radio story about the Mayo Clinic and how as a result of their polio treatment back in the '50's at least one patient, the author I am now working with on A Judas Kiss For Justice, Ron Kranig, insists that only after his months at the Mayo Clinic did a near perfect photographic memory develop for anything he saw, read, or heard.
My story proposal was that This American Life should find out if there were other polio patients who developed the same or other enhanced abilities. In Ron's case, he also believed that he grew about four inches taller than his father or brother.
So, within hours of that pitch I open the newspaper and find this article:
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-music-on-the-brain/
Mayo Clinic Minute: suggesting that music has the power to fortify brain pathways.
Now, you have to understand that for the first time in my life I sent a proposal to This American Life dealing with the Mayo Clinic and that within a few hours I see an article in the paper directly connected to that Mayo Clinic post.
That was all I needed to feel the Storytelling Fairies sweet pat on my back encouraging me to
...Keep Telling Your Story!!!
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