…because once in progress, a life requires destruction to make room for new creation.  Creativity doesn’t start in the spring, with new growth, fresh and optimistic.  It starts in the fall, holding onto only what can survive the winter, letting everything else wither, die, and be cleared away then resting and healing through the cold and starting from a messy but open plot of dirt in the spring. Here we grow what we can until it is mature enough to decide what to keep and what to throw out, starting the cycle again.  If we don’t face the work of destruction, the cycle of creation can’t start when the snow clears.