The Fallow Time

For the joyful fun of it ... dedicated to ... all writers everywhere waiting to hear back from an agent or an editor ... The magnificent Kinks and Tired of Waiting For You.

Acknowledging that seeking out fallowness, the Fallow Time, and waiting therein is important. Out of true stillness comes true inspiration on 'what to "do" next'. Acknowledging that 'unseen activity' is always there. Regardless of who has an opinion on that one way or another. Acknowledging that we must create 'cause' to experience any 'effect'. Some times, the cause we make has to be on our own consciousness - the feeling of the inevitability of 'success' for us and our writing is important. Some times, we need to be still and fallow to hear both what Story Tells us to tell, and, what we need to 'do' in the material world to create effect.

Or ... maybe ... it is just 'what to write next'. The Fallow Time is a good spaceTimePlace to be to come to know what that 'next' is.

Acknowledging that it is also a cool song from one of the most amazing periods, artistically, in the last few hundred year (in the West!).

As a writer I have found it simple and deep to follow in my writing journey the truism of Ibrahim Khawwas, the “Palm Weaver”, giving his definition of the Sufi path -

“Allow what is done for you to be done for you. Do for yourself that which you have to do for yourself.” (as quoted from “Tales of the Dervishes” by Idries Shah. page 147.)

This is a good Russian Doll maxim for those writers who want to work with it.

Usually I choose to have the last word here. However, here is a voice that is totally for the imagination and the imaginal - Carl Gustav Jung "The Power of Imagination". He is important because tellers of stories need to understand archetypes. Simply said.

Namaste! I bow to and honor the Light within you!