April 7, 2008
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First Thoughts
My favorite time of day is the nebulous gray time between first emerging from a dream and actually getting out of bed. Images from the dream are still fresh, allowing me to glean any significance that might exist in them. The bed is warm, cozy, and soft. But best of all, streams of ideas and language often bubble up into my conscious mind.
Sometimes those bubbling thoughts don't amount to much. Sometimes they're amusing or just surreal.
Sometimes, though, there's a raw thread of gold ore that works it's way though those thoughts and into a poem or other piece of art. Or as an insight that gets recorded in my journal.
I keep pen and paper by the bed to record these first thoughts. I've done this for many many years.
Do you do this too?
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I've started keeping my notebook by the bed, not so much for the first thoughts of the morning as the last thoughts of the night, just before I drift off. It seems that I will think something then that's worth considering later, but if I don't write it down, it's wiped out by morning.
So eloquently stated, Mary. Love your picture-painting imagery.
To be completely honest, I don't keep pen & paper to record my first thoughts, because the moment my feet hit the floor, I'm off to a "walk fast" start... having to kick-start "family operations" for the morning.
I'm like the Dunkin' Donuts man, but moving at a speedier pace.
Maybe if I woke up about an hour earlier, I could begin recording my first thoughts. But knowing me, I'd probably begin thinking about all the things I need to do before making all of my pre-work stops in the morning.
Beautiful post.
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