My Recent Creative Slump

It's been a whole week since I have posted and I really do not have a

good excuse except to say that I have been in a creative slump.

This is not a normal state for me.  I am usually overflowing with ideas

and plans and I can hardly wait to get up in the morning and get to

work to bring these plans to fruition.

Lately ~ nothing.  Nothing at all.  I have not been physically ill, or

sad or depressed,  I am fine.  I haven't even felt like discussing anything.

However, I have played in my garden.  I have been reading.  I have

watched old movies and taken Bentley on long walks.  

But yesterday, I noticed that some creativity was starting to bubble 

up.  I felt the usual restlessness spirit starting to rise up within me.

It was wonderful!  I started gathering things up to make something.

Whenever that happens, I seem to start out in one direction and then

suddenly change gears and head another way and there is just no

stopping me.  

So I pulled out an old grapevine wreath.  I started to add little 

gardening items.  I was playing.  I was having fun.  My muse

had returned!  

Whenever I go into this creative frenzy, I remind myself of Richard

Dreyfus's character in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

when he starts ripping out the shrubs in the garden and dumps  

dirt into the dining room to build a reproduction of the Devil's Tower

in Wyoming on the dining room table.  The only difference is that I

have not been visited by extraterrestrials.  At least I don't believe that

I have ;-)

Whatever it is, I am happy to be back here!

Big Texas Hugs,

Susan and Bentley