Good ideas never really come all at once.
Your lightbulb moment
is more like the switch on a kettle
pinging to off when the water finally comes
to a full boil.
The stillness can be mistaken for suddenness,
but clarity
takes longer to steep.
Good ideas never really come all at once.
Your lightbulb moment
is more like the switch on a kettle
pinging to off when the water finally comes
to a full boil.
The stillness can be mistaken for suddenness,
but clarity
takes longer to steep.
Carol J Forrester 
Ah, that lurking, simmering story. Even when they seem to flash into our consciousness, their roots can reach back a lifetime. Wonderful piece of writing.
Thank you. I had a lecturer tell me once that when she writes a poem for the first time it’s never any good, and when it is it’s because it’s normally been simmering away in her brain for weeks before she puts it to paper.
Just as you said, those flashes often root much deeper than we initially think.
So true! Clarity does take longer to steep. Love the analogies here.
we jump too quick, i must learn to be like that tea and allow clarity to slowly infuse my thoughts, loved your wisdom in this quadrille
Clarity takes longer to steep. That is so wonderful, and so true. Clarity may not be the same as certitude, but it sparkles, is based on slow accretions and connections rather than pure analysis. And stillness so critical.
Good point that clarity takes time to steep.