Creating…White Space

Do you ever wonder where some of the great inventions come from? Take for instance Orville and Wilbur Wright. Men had dreamed up ways to fly for centuries, mostly by watching birds in flight. That meant early attempts were trying to imitate something that we would have a hard time recreating, that is propulsion by flapping. Fast forward to 1903 and you have two brothers from Ohio who grew up in a bicycle shop. Sure there were many inventions that came along to help push us towards flight, and most assuredly we have taken flight to realms hardly imagined to early aviation engineers, but honestly, who thought the bicycle would be a pivotal element.

And yet that is what white space does. It is not the intimidating blank canvas that begs you not to start, it is the gritty old metal shop garage, the overfilled art studio, it is the comfy chair at the bookstore, it is the opera…well, maybe. White space is the time more than it is the place to let your mind see and experience new things at best only loosely related to the task you are thinking of. Then sit down, definitely carry something to write in and start putting thoughts, doodles or pictures to paper.