At the Hospital

At the Hospital
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WHEN I CAME ACROSS THIS PHOTOGRAPH IN NEWMEXICO51'S FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM, I KNEW I HAD TO WRITE AN ESSAY...

DEALING WITH CREATIVITY AND "LEAVE ME ALONE" ATTITUDE

The definition of the desire to write. To write, one so often must ignore those close to us in order to view the events and characters that are either fictional or so far back in memory that any contact with the presence annoys and disconnects. Such it is, such is the way it has been. There is only one way to come to terms with this, a lesson it has taken me more than 50 years to learn: when one becomes so anxiety-ridden in a project that's creative in nature, art, writing or whatever, one finally must be assertive and stand up or sit up and say: "it is over for the day." One must divorce one from our creative projects when it is time for family or friends. We can only remain reclusive for so long, lest we be forgotten by those who love us. Robert L. Huffstutter