11.13.23

Thought

The best thing about writing is not the actual labour of putting word I against word, brick upon brick, but the preliminaries, the spade work, which is done in silence, under any circumstances, in dream as well as in the waking state. In short, the period of gestation. No man ever puts down what he intended to say: the original creation, which is taking place all the time, whether one writes or doesn’t write, belongs to the primal flux: it has no dimensions, no form, no time element. In this preliminary state, which is creation and not birth, what disappears suffers no destruction.

— Henry Miller. Why Don’t You Try to Write? – Creators on Creating.

Quote 

Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein on creativity:  

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Moment of Gratitude

I’m grateful that I got to take my newborn niece for her first swim lesson this weekend.  

What are you grateful for?

Happy Monday,

Val