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Who let the butterfly drive the Ferrari?

Who's going to clean this mess up?

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Jim Dalling
Jul 25, 2022
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Ok.

I’m not sure if this is something you’ve experienced.

But there are times when my excitement, my bursting joy to be alive, to discover, to share to create?

All this stuff?

All of this gets so great that creative butterflies come bursting from my gut with such turbo charged velocity, they’re difficult to keep under control.

Fast butterflies are messy.

And?

Fast butterflies don’t live very long.

Most ordinary butterflies only last between two and four weeks.

The ones vaulting from my stomach - the fast ones?

They’re a bit more reckless.

I’m filled with James Dean butterflies. Janis Joplin butterflies. Jimi Hendrix butterflies.1

You get the idea.

They are really creative and really short lived butterflies.

Awwww.

You making a sad face?

Don’t feel too bad.

They’re fucking bugs.

Ideas and excitement are bugs.

And no matter how messy they are when they die, they weigh less than three quarters of a gram at the most.

The’re easy to clean up.

It’s easy, when we’re bursting with excited creative butterflies t…

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