Beautiful, isn't it?
This picture is a five minute pause to appreciate the beauty of a full lake. Just two years ago, this was a dry, cracked expanse that only gave the vague impression of having once remembered being a place for water to gather. But now, you see that it is full from bank to bank.
The dry lake bed promised nothing but continued heat and danger of fire too real and too scary to fathom. This cold body of water promises life to birds and fish and amphibians and to me.
How many of you go through oscillations of feeling that your creativity has drained away leaving you dry and cracked? It so doesn't matter if you are just starting out or if you have been in the business of writing for a long time, there are just entire periods of creative drought. You aren't alone. Nor are you done.
Just because your supply has run short has not changed who you are. Even dry, this lake bed was still a lake bed. But, we could see the cracks, the brokenness, the missing piece was so clear, so stark in its absence. Now that it is back, it is so easy to see how much this lake bed needs to be filled with water and how much all around it also need the water there.
Do what it takes to conserve your supply. And should you go through a time of drought, just remember that it only took two rainstorms to fill this lake to overflowing.