Moodling

“So you see, imagination needs moodling–long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering…. If your idleness is a complete slump, that is, indecision, worry…that is bad and terribly sterile….But if it is the dreamy idleness that children have, an idleness when you walk alone for a long, long time, or take a long dreamy time dressing, or lie in bed at night and thoughts comes and go, or dig in a garden, or drive a car for many hours alone, or play the piano, or sew, or paint ALONE, or an idleness–and this is what I want you to do–where you sit with pencil and paper or before a typewriter quietly putting down what you happen to be thinking, that is creative idleness. With all my heart I tell you and reassure you: at such times you are being slowly filled and re-charged with warm imagination, with wonderful, living thoughts.” –Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write

via  MAD’s Monday Muse | Moodling.