The hopper was filled to the brim with harvest.
The field is now, for all intents and purposes, empty.
It is close cropped.
I can do no more for now.
No will, no wherewithall, no whatmenot.
I am fallow.
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
(Henry Miller)
Fallow periods are important. Hope you feel regenerated soon.
ReplyDeleteI thrive in fallow.
DeleteWe often miss the things that are speaking to us while we ourselves are speaking.
ReplyDeleteIndeed we always miss things...fortunately :-)
DeleteFallow is good and essential, as you say. Sometimes you relish in it, the barely existing, and sometimes it gets you down. I'm enjoying fallow for quite a while now and go up and down in my reaction to it.
ReplyDeleteI think that is an interesting connection that we make between fellows and fallow.
DeleteWhen one is down one is down. There is no IT for me.
Hmm... Depends on what 'down' means.
Deletehttp://www.wittycomics.com/comic/101620
DeleteMy comment follow your fallow, a layer of 'manure' for the next cutting: https://diigo.com/080ofx
ReplyDeleteLook forward to seeing what grows after the harvest :-)
DeleteTry this storify instead of the diigo link: https://storify.com/tellio/fallow
DeleteWhat I figure is that fallow is fertile.
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