RE: Am I the Laziest Writer Ever - Part II

As someone who is also at the age of meaning of life, I find that what happens is that both the responsibility and trivium of life pile on us in a way that they did not when we were younger, demanding much more of our mental and emotional energy ... so I look at my childhood model, Beethoven, and how he kept from slowing down too much in his middle forties. At 42 -- much older in his time than ours -- he wrote both his seventh and eighth symphonies ... but then lost his brother and adopted his nephew at age 44, and just there, he slowed down dramatically.

But there were two things Beethoven refused to give up:

1. His long walks in nature
2. His ability to look back at things he had completed or sketched when younger, and remix them when he had no "new" ideas

That carried him creatively to four months before his death at age 56. Had his health not failed, there would have been a completed tenth symphony ... but that Ninth? He started the first ideas of that when he was TWENTY-SIX, and remixed them into hundreds of sketches and at least two published pieces over the next seventeen years.

Enjoy your bath ... release the responsibility and the trivium. Do things that you enjoy ... I am starting my day on Hive listening to THIS:

... and commenting on posts I really enjoy, including yours. I am not feeling well and also have chores to manage ... so I am "refilling the tank" intentionally before asking of my mind and spirit to create anything. By Friday I will be well enough (Lord willing) to return to my daily walk ...

... and I will write in my journal what comes to me as I go, as Beethoven also did with his sketchbooks. A little creating as it comes, while doing anything and everything but focusing (for a little while) on the other responsibilities and trivium seems to clear the path for me.