I’ve made tremendous strides this month. I have felt filled with new inspiration, and have gotten significantly more from my days than in the past. I’ve felt a pressing need to log it somehow, to catalog how one changes from a stasis to progress. Brood 6, the namesake, is directly rooted in metamorphosis. It feels as if i am finally taking that step.
I’ve read that when caterpillars retreat into their cocoons to become butterflies their bodies melt into a kind of soup. Cells that were once eyes, guts, bits of goo, might migrate to the proboscis or end up in the wings… in other words it is a complete rebirth/reformation from the cellular level. Brood VI is inspired by the “magica” cicadas, that take an extraordinary long time to change from grub to adult -17 years specifically. I have felt similarly stagnant and in want of metamorphosis, while remaining disappointingly unchanged.
But with all the work that I’ve put in to carve out the purer me, the recent birth of my daughter has proven to be the key to really focusing my mind on what i really want, and to set on the path to achieve those things. And with her finally sleeping longer through the night (at five months we’re able to get her in bed from 9 to 7, with a midnight dream feed tucked in between), coupled with a lucrative first half of the year for me work-wise, I’ve got the energy and the resources to begin working on the things that are really important.
