We all need a weekend (or more) away now and then. Someplace away from the madding crowd. Someplace quiet. Our souls were meant to work that way. You can’t constantly barrage your mind or your soul with stress without overloading.

There’s something about sitting around a fire that relaxes the body as well as the mind. Just walking out into the woods and collecting acorns for no apparent reason, just works. It is good for the creative as well as the logical mind. It gives them both a rest and an opportunity to meld.

Creative people are sometimes looked down on for being lazy or not participating in life. There’s work to be done! But I believe both sides of the brain are necessary. I am a mixture of the two, creative and logical. I love music and literature but realized early on I had to make a living and that for me required logic. And I am sometimes logical. I have to-do lists which have to-do lists. I write everything down, not trusting my memory, but knowing I must follow the path: one, two, three. It’s logical. My computer teacher told me that in programming, “I’s just logical.” And eventually, I molded my creative brain into a logical one, right brain vs. left brain. I had two sides to my brain, and I needed to use them both, no matter how hard it was. And I learned. But the creative side, though it never made a living for me, had to be fed now and then.

There is nothing like getting back to nature to get the creative juices flowing. There area acorns to be collected and bird songs to be heard. It is an opportunity to stretch my creativity and give my logical brain a rest, but that is Another Story for another Time.

What are you reading/writing/creating this week?