xoros

Sometimes words and ideas just pour out of me. I can barely hold them in. Other times I find myself in a fog of thought from which I can pick no single strand, no one thing I can clearly express. They approach and recede before I can get a grip on them. It’s like being attacked by a cloud of midges. Just annoying enough to make it really hard to ignore but they are too small and indistinct to combat one by one. I try to let them drop until they are ready to be seen and handled individually, to give up their feel and taste. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t.

When the cloud is less intense it turns into a rainbow storm of thoughts, ideas and creativity. Then I revel in it, letting the ideas and concepts tumble out so I can use and learn from them. As a designer this is a wonderful experience when in full flow and focussed on a piece of work.

I guess I could learn to always let the thought cloud storm drop when it happens, but then I’d be giving up the good along with the bad. I don’t think I want to so I’ll put up with the midges