Do you ever come across that moment, you know the one where the flow just overcomes you and you can’t write or type fast enough to get your thoughts and ideas down? Does that come to you only when you’re writing, or do you find it in another art form and then it inspires your writing?
Ah, inspiration! Seems we’re fresh out of that these days, or can be if we aren’t watching or looking hard enough.
I’m the visual type so I’m always looking around for something interesting to see. With smart phones, what do I do but snap a picture or two or three or occasionally a burst. Usually, though, I take only one shot. I try to get the focus, the view right the first time. I’m a no filter needed one photo will do it no editing needed type of picture taker.
I created a local poetry book and FB page and often times if I take a picture of something local then I might write a poem about it, too. (See @poetryinla on FB or Insta.). Those picture taking moments are magic to me - a magical realism where real life and art blend together in a fantastic hopeful joyous and yes inspiring way.
Moments of magic infiltrate moments of every day each and every day. You have to pay attention, though, to the act, to the magician behind whatever it is you’re seeing so you don’t miss it - that sunset, that view, pouring rain, a neon open sign in an otherwise shutdown shopping center, that quote, that book, - whatever crosses your path.
The magic is real so don’t blink. Take it, and make it your own.
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