Water can be hard to come by out in the forest. Clean water even more so. At times, even the trees find it hard to gather enough water; dead leaves and needles gather thickly at their feet.

My droughts are ones of motivation - where at times it flows swiftly through my life like a river, at others I could walk for ages just to find a drop. Yet...it's always been about having too much of one thing, and not enough of another. Endless cloudy days bring floods of rain, yet sunlight makes plants grow.

In drought it is the opposite. The presence of the sun can be felt even in the shade, and little shelter from it can be found.

Too much of something that would otherwise have been valuable makes it a danger. When it comes to droughts, I only really lose my motivation when I have far too much time. It's as if only now do I have enough time to find the exact right thing I "should" be spending my time on, and I can finally afford to waste time on a thousand other things I wished I had enough time for.

I have the feeling that some people know how to deal with this already, and perhaps it should be obvious. There are always important activities in our lives that we've neglected when things get really busy. Taking the time later on when things slow down to address the chores and forgotten promises of life seems to be the answer, at least for now.