The state, well accustomed to alarming economic events, finds itself experiencing something unfamiliar: guarded optimism.
Whenever the world finds itself experiencing painful reordering in international affairs, two crucial questions emerge for those in charge in Washington, DC: how should America attempt to shape international order, and what price should it be willing to pay?
Even Spotify, an on-demand music experience, has found itself creating a compelling discovery experience.
For months now, the institute has found itself confronting a threat never experienced by another American museum of its size and not of its own making: the possibility that parts of its world-class collection will be forcibly sold off to help pay billions in debt owed by the city, now in federal bankruptcy.
Too much verisimilitude can be a dangerous thing, however: all too quickly, the Holy Land Experience found itself with its very own intifada in the works.
Well, the Treasury has had plenty of experience of that, but nevertheless found itself deficient in resources and experience when the bankers almost brought the entire edifice down.
I'm on the board of a conflict-resolution group with 10 years of experience that found itself in the cross-fire when some Muslim groups accused it of "not being Muslim enough" to help de-radicalise extremists.
The idea of cinema as a communal experience finds itself at a strange point when rep is making pleas for its own existence alongside the multiplex, which has been trying for the novelty factor by resurrecting 3D.
Aboard the Acushnet, Melville realises with a "shudder of quiet pleasure" that his experience "might find itself one day in a work of fiction by his own hand", the narrative continuing to signal the links between work and life: "He knew it would, and vowed to listen keenly, to watch and record in his journal whatever transpired".
I found similarities, experienced kindness and generosity.
