Though much of the content was inspiring, this time, the message made me think about another layer to what Ms. Sandberg had been saying, one that now made me uncomfortable, not because the message changed but because I had.

FORBES: Lean On To 'Lean In'?

It wasn't like that when I moved in, but things had changed.

NPR: Raising Dogs, Fighting Dogs

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Hero'

But I had not until then realized how profoundly things had changed.

NEWYORKER: Days of Rage

"He said he was going to kill it, but when I asked him about it later, he said he had changed his mind, " he told the Register-Guard.

BBC: Oregon farmer eaten by his pigs

Three and a half decades later, when Klugh was scheduled to come into our studios for a performance and interview, I couldn't help but wonder whether his decades of success had changed him.

NPR: Jazz Guitarist Earl Klugh Stays Humble

Now I was standing before a man who resembled my old reflection almost exactly but who had been changed in some manner, the way a lawn under a cloudy sky changes when the sun comes out.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish