Limiting Gestation

Not my back yard,
but down the alley from me.

Musing about limits these past few days, here's just a few thoughts.

Someone - can’t think who right now - says that limits are, well, limiting.

All of us try to live within the limits of

budget 

health

employment

speed laws!

I could go on but there is not enough room on this page to list all of life’s limits.

So what do I think about limits?

Limits can be an advantage whether

fixed,

moveable

or both

In the real world of the everyday

but imagination is where it gets really exciting.....

Now, that is where limits are malleable

and I get to set them inside that world.

Writing on a work day is a short bit in the morning

and then this late afternoon into early evening time where I peck out

an opinion piece like this, 

polish a story, 

scribble a bit of poetry

The limits are only

time at my disposal and

ink in my pen

paper of any kind

power for my computer

all of the ideas, thoughts and stories planted

in the morning for the evening’s harvest.

On days off, the time for my writing practice, 

while more expansive

is chopped up into little bits or

sliced off in larger slabs

And, over time, my body memory has it written that 

something will flow at about this time

and so it does - for better or for worse.

Limits tell me when to focus and how quickly

Limits encourage imagination to 

flow like an open faucet or 

rest and gestate while other work is being done.

“The world of reality has it’s limits; 

the world of imagination is boundless.”

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau