When I speak, I am often reminded of what is said about a prophet in his own country. It works both ways. I may be telling people something they have known for years, but when it comes from the mouth of a stranger with a microphone it suddenly takes on a level of validity that it had been missing, and on the flip side, when I am talking to a group who has known me for sometime I am compelled to come with an epiphany, because the gentle reminders are passé. What I find to be true in both cases is that when you get people to laugh at themselves their minds are suddenly open to any amount of teaching. Can we look at our lives and see that they perhaps aren’t as pathetically intense as we thought, but instead a daily comedic endeavor that really will be funny one day if not now? A poignant truth or a meaningful lesson is always more easily shared by the speaker and ingested by the listener when we have first established that life’s difficulties are more bearable when eased by an intentional search for the ridiculous.
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