LOONEY, BRILLIANT IDEAS

As you're waking up with thoughts flying helter-skelter -- chores, memories, toilet twinge, leg cramp -- you want more sleep. You close your eyes -- suddenly, POP.  An idea pops. 

Be it a trip to take, or a powerful longing to do, say, try something, or nothing important -- that POP colors the day that unfolds.

My husband works -- is established, has had a busy, successful career as an actor.  But what's next for him is a long corridor, a dark hallway with ... oh, maybe a light bulb here and there, stuck in one of the walls. The phone will ring -- his agent will call with a new project. He doesn't have to do anything but be what he already is -- cheerful, positive, ready to dig into whatever possibilities come his way.

For me it's different. I'm a self employed writer, blogger, ex-dancer, wife, mom -- when the phone rings, it's for my husband or for me as the landlady -- we own the building where we live.

Waking, doing the usual washing, dressing, coffee-making, putting away last  night's washed dishes -- with coffee cup in hand, I head down a hallway I painted pink, and gallop downstairs to turn on my computer  and POP.

POP GOES THE WEASEL!

I grab it.

Whatever it is -- a big wham of a thought or a looney-tune tinkle -- be it a penny, spool of thread, or needle -- wherever the money goes -- who cares where the money goes -- GO -- fourth dimension, or zero tiny impulse -- from that easily un-noticeable brain itch, comes great ideas.

Make that a new rule -- grab any tingle -- whatever you find in your mind, grab it and do.  

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