The Space Between the Ideas

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

Rumi

The Quiet Place We Often Overlook

You know that in-between feeling that arrives in our lives every so often? You know you’re not lost, not stuck - just kind of holding space while everything moves around you.

There’s a gentleness connected to it. A peculiar kind of quiet that comes just before clarity shows up.

I’m in that space right now—not with frustration, but with an increased awareness that a shift is coming, and I think it’s going to suit me well.

Where Ideas Go Quiet, Awareness Steps In

Ideas aren’t rushing toward me, and I’m not pushing things around trying to make room for something new.

But I am listening. I’m paying attention to what’s close, watching for small messages, and noticing what I can’t control.

And I’m recognizing that the reality of not knowing is one of the quiet threads that connects us all.

There’s a flow happening out there.

Some things will keep moving by. Others will slow down long enough to enter my space. Whatever that is, the door is open—no forced entry needed.

The Creative Rhythm of Stillness

There’s a kind of beauty and purpose in this in-between space. It lives with us all the time. And when we’re lucky, we notice—without trying—that there’s a message here worth welcoming.

I could be sitting in my studio, walking through the garden, or just sensing a shift while sipping my coffee. But the shift is real. And the space where the ideas are gathering? It’s not in the future. It’s now.

“The waiting place is where possibility lives.”

Morgan Harper Nichols

Creativity Doesn’t Always Announce Itself

It’s an impulse that doesn’t need a “why” or a “what” attached to it. It doesn’t have to be fully formed. And to be honest, it’s never an empty space—it’s where creativity lives. Always has. Always will.

So go ahead. Permit yourself to accept that this space—and all the quiet ideas living there—are part of your creative rhythm.

Sometimes we don’t need direction to begin walking. We don’t even have to know where we’re going.

Just being present is enough to place us on the right path.

“I have learned that waiting is not passive. It is active surrender to what wants to unfold.”

Sue Monk Kidd

The Pause Before the Page Turns

Don’t rush from these in-between spaces.

They’re here for a reason.

No different than a period at the end of a sentence—it lets you know when to stop… and more importantly, when to begin again.

Talk soon…

G