I was frightened and my senses were heightened, because I was a woman, who didn't look like the locals, walking through the hood near midnight with my full purse slung across my shoulder.
And though I felt a bit of 'ye old guilt when he uttered the words, "You really have it together," and thanked me for pacifying his relationship concerns with my one-night-only sense of heightened wisdom, I found comfort in one truth: if I was single in his eyes, he wouldn't have listened to me.
I get this weird sensation throughout my body that all my senses are heightened, and I start getting a little flushed in my chest area, and then the breathing part is my hardest thing.
The things that happen in it are heightened, but I shot it like a documentary so that the audience was not aware of the artifice.
My anxiety was heightened when I asked a white friend who had recently vacationed in the area whether she thought it would be safe.
Security levels in public places have been heightened and I think people were, and perhaps still are, a lot more wary.
But there's always my unfortunate Krusty-the-Clown instinct, which is heightened because I can hear the audience, hear a hundred people breathing and going" — he parted his lips and gave an expectant simper.
