SPEAKE IN RIDDLES AND LATER ANSWER
Paul Simon in 1963 had only been singing covers and had made 50 demos of new songs. His biographer Robert Hillburn said he´d listened them all and none were good. In november 1963 Simon decided to sit in darkness in his clauset with only the water tap running every afternoon, he said he was soothed by the sound. Every day in november he sat there with lights out just listening to the dark.
After days sitting in the darkness these words just came to him.
Hello darkness my old friend, I´ve come to talk to you again
Because a vision softly creeping, left it´s seed while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains.
Within the sound of silence
The darkness started to talk to him.
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Writer Anne Lamott had a brother ten years old trying to write a school paper on birds. Having spent three months without doing anything sitting the last evening before final submission he was in despair almost crying, his father put his arm around him and said; Bird by bird. Just do it bird by bird. The name of a much appriciated book she wrote.
To be continued..