There are Times and Seasons for Things
There must be times and seasons for things in our lives. When I was a young girl, I would think up stories fast and furiously. I would grab a notebook and pencil and climb up into our walnut tree and write all these stories. I still have the notebook.
Then when I was in my 30s and 40s and singing at a lot of concerts and clubs, melodies came to me thick and fast, like spring pollen on the wind. Often, I would stop whatever I was doing, run to the piano and write down the melody—the germ of a new song. But they came so easily and constantly that I thought that phenomenon would happen forever. It didn’t. Now I think of a new melody only occasionally (and I do stop and write it down).
When I was in the editing phase of writing the book about my husband’s cancer journey, I would wake in the morning with two or three concepts in the book that needed to be changed or added. Those two to three things would then take me the entire day to accomplish—from 9 am to 6 pm. It was interesting that I was never overwhelmed with too many ideas in one day. I realized later that in consistently having no more than three thoughts, I wasn’t “having” thoughts—I was being given thoughts from a heavenly source (my husband?), and that is actually a huge miracle.
So now I am having these little musings—pithy little thoughts that could be the germ of something. They must be coming for a reason. I am choosing to go with the flow and write them down. There must be some purpose in their emergence. Maybe their purpose is as a catalyst for you to think your own thoughts and create your own projects.
See more about the Creative Process of the mind on ElaineBrewster.org> podcast> Sophia DiMuccio www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZHMeJbgQBw and podcast >Michael DiMuccio www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0dcsaXnH3E.