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Some of these things lead us somewhere,
some lead us nowhwere, and, others
are just leading us.

Of course we act on these in many different ways:
write,
design,
research,
project,
build,
stare.

These are not lines from a poem, but we write
poetry sometimes, mostly in the form of haiku.
We've been doing that for 15 years.

Here is a sample:

No say over birth,
so when death comes, the same–
blushing end to end.

Here is another sample:

No. 1.
I was asked once to recount a time when I was inspired and what I did with that inspiration.
This was annoying to me. We are inspired every day, and not always in monumental ways.
But mostly, I wonder why we are so expected to do something with inspiration. Regardless,
I did remember a time, many times, in fact–and indeed, many times in the very day I was
asked this question. My response though did not include the inspirationsof that day.

This is the response, in words, since I didn't have this
particular inspiration and reaction with me that day was this:

"I was reading a poem by Fernando Pessoa, or in this case, under the heteronyms Alberto Caeiro.
The poem was typical for him, and so, it was typically beautiful. At the end of the poem,
maybe twenty lines, I immediatley had a sense that this poem was not finished,
and I had the perfect conclusion to the poem, as I saw it at the time, and still do.
That additional line is:'and this is my life, loss by loss.'"

The points are this: 1) inspiration comes abruptly sometimes, and that does not diminish it,
and it doesn't need a grand recognition, and 2) as designers we do not need to always make
something new. We can use what exists already. And we should in some cases recognize that
what has been made before us, is not in need of a complete deconstruction, but only a simple
adjustment, or in this case, a supplement