Restless creative energy: the eye of the brainstorm
I have always been terrible at sitting still. My parents used to make me sit on my hands as even when I was in "time out," I would pester my siblings and drum on the wall or counter. So decades ago after my umpteenth hand sit, I realized this time was a gift to develop new adventures in my hyperactive mind. At the moment, my creative motor is standing idle . For years I've juggled several interests and outputs including: Working a video production job, Writing a weekly tech column, Semi-regularly writing-directing-producing short films, Composing music for video bed music and video projects, Producing family videos and Podcasting. As I type this, all of that has been culled to just my day job. This is of course temporary as our household becomes proficient in parenting two young children, but still... I'm restless. So since my 2nd daughter's birth in November I've returned to my handsitting brainstorming to figure out how I can fill the void left by m...