{"id":232,"date":"2015-08-18T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2017-01-02T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T03:22:14","slug":"mind-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Mind Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-229\" \n    src=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_01.jpg\" \n    alt=\"Hummingbird in silhouette\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_01.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_01-150x122.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning, I happened to look out my window and see the fleeting silhouette of a hummingbird. It was gone in a split second, and for a moment, I wondered if I&#8217;d even seen it.<\/p>\n<p>But I can recall the outline of that small, butterfly-like bird like a snapshot in my mind. Yes, I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, my thoughts are like that hummingbird\u2014or movement in my peripheral vision. Like dreams from the night before fading from my consciousness, I have to write them down when they come to me, or lose them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-230\" \n    src=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_02.jpg\" \n    alt=\"Yellow fish\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the experience, over the years, of having insights that seem so profound at the moment, I believed I&#8217;d always remember them. But then, they would fade away. It feels like these thoughts, images, and ideas are like brightly colored fish in the ocean of my unconscious. A current will bring one of them up near the surface, where I see it hanging suspended in the dark water. Then, in a little flash of color, it dives so deep again that I can&#8217;t recall it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, years later, it resurfaces, and I recognize it. I know the insight is not new, that I&#8217;d lost it, and if I want to remember it, I must write it down immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I used to try to capture all of my insights and ideas by carrying a notebook and writing them down whenever I had them. I did nothing with many of them, because there&#8217;s an energy that happens when they&#8217;re fresh that I need to ride like a wave to be able to stay in it, and write from the point of the thought to its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Like this morning. I had no idea what I would write in my blog. I saw the hummingbird, made the association with fleeting thoughts and insights, and knew I better catch the wave while there was still energy behind it, and see where it took me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-231\" \n    src=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_03.jpg\" \n    alt=\"Woman surfing in ocean\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_03.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_03-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-08-18_03-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t catch them all. But I can pay attention, and choose when to follow a wave of thought made by a bright, little fish\u2014or a hummingbird\u2014and see where it takes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I happened to look out my window and see the fleeting silhouette of a hummingbird. It was gone in a split second, and for a moment, I wondered if I&#8217;d even seen it. But I can recall the outline of that small, butterfly-like bird like a snapshot in my mind. 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