It’s interesting to analyze the flow of creative ideas. You have a need, you ponder a while on how to fulfill that need, you hop around in research, you come up with a better idea–often through the process of elimination–of what you’re looking for as a tool, and then you hit upon something. Or so you think.
Just this morning I e-mailed a friend about a software program I’m seeking, and particularly what I want it to do for me and how I’d like it to work. It’s one of those Ahah! moments, and yet something doesn’t feel right about it. A couple hours later you find out why. It’s nothing new; what I came up with as a solution was a workspace environment based upon my own learned comfort zone. Work left to right, allow for up and down–in other words, a writing and working area that I’ve used all my life.
Amazing how we often come full circle. In creating the new we depend upon the old, while still seeking to go beyond it by breaking the barriers that restrict us. Yet there’s something to be said, I suppose, for what has taken centuries to come to that point.
I feel I want to pick up threads and unravel them; fan them out in new directions. Yet the thread must be there to go on.
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