Recognition: Listening

ringing in spring

Musing…

From the shshshsh of winter, warmth begins to course through, a whisper of excitement that change is underfoot.  Seasons shift, spring stirs. Without being seen yet.  The scene of unseen.  The before manifest.  Brings me to the creative landscape – your creative landscape, where finding out what you have stirring to be manifest is about listening.

Charise’s turn: 

On the phone with my friend Lisa, just a catch up call, she told me how a cricket got stuck in candle wax at her apartment and how this became a funny story for her family.  She went on to say that after her recent move to Manhattan she bought a cricket cage.  A novelty, completely useless, she said.  “It has no function, but it does fit in our down sized apartment”.  As we laughed, I recognized that the useless thing does have a function, “it has a function for your imagination”.  We then let our minds go to images of collecting cricket cages, stacking them up to the ceiling, putting different things inside each one. Total inane silliness, but the images were taking a life and I told her she was inspiring me to write a poem.  “I'll put your poem inside one of the cages,” she said. “And”, she continued, “Bellevue isn’t far away if my family thinks I’ve gone over the deep end”. “Oh, yes, “I replied, “Bellevue is a very large cricket cage”.  

I did write a poem titled “Cricket Cage” right after we hung up. More function of the imagination.

Get Fired Up:

Tune in to what you are hearing, listen with all your senses, with curiosity and wonder as you engage in the world.

Listening leads to recognition of what stirs your creative impulse.