On The Swing

I like to think.

Thinking takes me places.

In all seriousness, the kind of thinking I do has value. Whether or not one agrees doesn't matter. I find it to be an important part of my life. Of my soul. Some may think it's a waste of time. After all, what does "thinking" produce? 

"Tire Swing Kind Of Day" by me.

Well, on the surface, nothing.

It takes up time that I could be "doing something." 

Is thinking doing nothing?

Most of my stories come from thinking, or from dreams. 

Dreaming isn't a waste of time. It helps one work out problems, unconsciously. It takes me, in particular, on adventures. The night before last, I spent time with my best friend, Helene, who died in February. I would pay good money for that kind of time.

Conscious thinking is an interesting thing to me. I find if I try to control it, I wander off my intention or fall asleep. But how do you just let it go? How do you let it do what it wants? Does it want anything anyway? How silly to think so.

But I do. Silly me.

I have thought up an idea for two really good businesses. They could possibly be tied together into one. I have thought up an amazing charity. I would expand but who wants to just give those ideas to someone else who would run with them. Would you like to help me make them happen? I guarantee they would be beautiful, they would make people happy, and they have value. 

So unless someone else dreams up the same businesses- there's value in my ideas. I think the businesses I invent are unique. They're things that no one else is doing. They're possible and NOT impossible. They're not even a stretch. They're attainable. But I don't know how to take my vision into reality. I don't know how to apply for grants. I don't know how to find a backer.

But I'm off the subject. I'm not writing to ask for a backer. I'm writing to say that all good places come from an idea. A need. A thought from a thinker. A dream from a dreamer. I am that person.

So if I do nothing with these ideas, is it a waste of time? I suppose it is your right to think so.

When I thought up those businesses it wasn't me directing thought. They just came. I listen to muses often. I'm good at it. My ear is tuned. But you have to have the ability to shut down your own interference to hear them. That's a skill. 

Does it have value? 

Yes.

Need I explain it further? 

I suppose.

Perhaps tomorrow.

Let me think on it.