Sacred Rythms...

A major obstacle to creativity is wanting to be
in the peak season of growth and generation at all times...
but if we see the soul's journey as cyclical, like the seasons...
then we can accept the reality
that periods of despair or fallowness are like winter
- a resting time that offers us a period of creative hibernation, purification,
and regeneration that prepares us for the births of spring.

~ Linda Leonard
(The Artist's Rule by Christine Valters Paintner)