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Sunday, January the 4th, 2009
004 - The Wellspring
I looked up from my keyboard, and sighed, exhausted.
I got up to make a trip to the bathroom and smelled the coffee I completely forgot about making, still sitting on the warming pad of my four cup mini Mr. Coffee. Yawning, I checked the time.
I had been typing full-speed, continuously, for nearly an hour.
Having not done much outside of cutting vegetables, washing dishes, and sitting, in the past two weeks, I had no outlet for my creativity. Oddly, a lot of great ideas occurred to me while meditating, and I had to consciously bring my attention off of them.
And so, when I sat down at my desk this morning, I felt a buzzing, like there was something inside me that just had to get out.
As soon as my fingers hit the home row, words just gushed forth in great spurts and torrents. It was a race against time to get them out of my brain and embedded in the platters of my harddrive before I forgot them all. Ideas arose and passed away with such great rapidity, often times reminding me of other ideas upon which I then felt the need to elaborate before I could return, that it was an impossibly daunting task. I did my best.
Writing for me is oftentimes a transcendent experience. When I left my last attempt at this project, I felt a bit dejected, worn down. At the very end, I was struggling to keep things fresh. Now, the reverse was true. I had too many ideas, far more than could be contained in this single enterprise.
Maybe it was time to start that novel after all.
Even so, I knew that however amazing this felt, it could not last forever. I poured my coffee, cracked my knuckles, and got back to work.