The Best Ideas Come from Aimlessness

#1 - The only Christmas shopping I do these days is for a few children in my life.  I often try to give experiences more than things.  One idea I had this year which includes both an experience and things for my partner's children looks like it will finally work out.  I'm mostly glad because that means I don't need to think up another option.

#2 - Someone I love dearly who does not enjoy working on his resume, sent his off today to the agency that his former employer has helping him in his job search.  They will review it for him and send back comments.

#3 - I don't usually go to a mid-morning yoga class, but my exercise plan yesterday didn't work.  I felt a peace afterwards that I thought I'd grown kind of immune to from yoga.  The class was more challenging than I expected and the quiet carried into  into the drug store where I did errands after and into my afternoon.

#4 -   Alberto Rios - the new poet I discovered at poetry group last night and which writing this reminded me to look up today.

#5 - I heard this yesterday, but it's what I've been thinking and I want to share it.  Creativity is so so precious to me - just the space around us from which it emerges - everything comes from space



I just looked for a quote about Einstein whom I know said his ideas came from times of aimlessness - or something of the sort.  And I found this great article

Albert Einstein’s best ideas came when he was aimless. Yours can too

"...As Olivia Goldhill explains in Quartz, “psychologists recommend that children be bored in the summer.” The idea behind allowing for boredom isn’t to torture kids, of course. It’s to give young minds the time and space (ahem) to amble, discover, create, and find their own genius."

https://qz.com/1299282/albert-einsteins-best-ideas-came-while-he-was-relaxing-aimlessly-yours-can-too/