{"id":3343,"date":"2017-11-02T08:18:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2017-11-02T08:18:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:18:59","slug":"light-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/light-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fog drifted here and there. I moved through it without any real purpose. Why have a defined purpose on the beach at dawn? Why not wander? Why not wander into a metaphor?<\/p>\n

I followed the curving wrack line. It was stacked with kelp, crabs, seaweed, wood, shells and feathers. I culled the detritus with a stick looking for treasures to decorate my home.<\/p>\n

There it was, a light bulb, an old school incandescent model, 60 watts. It wasn’t burned out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then another light bulb, an old school florescent tube, definitely burned out.<\/p>\n

Previous to this discovery, I had never come across light bulbs in 20 years of rambling Oregon’s ocean beaches. But here they were.<\/p>\n

I beach comb primarily for metaphors these days but never go out expressly looking for them. It’s not like I say: this morning I will find a metaphor to help guide my life<\/i>. The metaphors just materialize and I always stand ready to contemplate their existence, juggle them in the air, and perhaps apply them to my life.<\/p>\n

Two light bulbs! How could I ignore that find? Maybe it wasn’t even a coincidence but the ocean rolling in some trash that I could repurpose for abstract inspiration.<\/p>\n

A light bulb went on in my mind (an energy efficient one, I might add). At long last, I had the one big idea I needed to transcend my present ordeal.<\/p>\n

The idea was that I needed to invent one colossal creative idea to explode me out of marginalization. I feel like I’ve been crawling of late to escape. Forget crawling. Climb inside the barrel of a battleship’s big gun and fire away!<\/p>\n

I diagrammed the colossal idea right there in the sand, committed it to memory, and then continued my wandering.<\/p>\n

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