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Creative Juices – recharging your batteries

January 30, 2012 by Bob Borson 11 Comments

Broken Bow Lake
Broken Bow Lake in Oklahoma

It is only the end of January but I am feeling a little burned out, moving through the week in a fog-like creative vacuum – which is a really bad thing when you are in a creative field. It’s time to break loose from my daily patterns and recharge the batteries and get my creative juices flowing. Err, that sounds super nasty but I don’t mean it that way. At the end of this week I am taking a short holiday and doing something that is definitely outside my normal pattern.

I am going trout fishing … with my wife and 7 year old daughter…

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and it was my daughters idea.

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First let me start off by saying that I am not a fisherman, I don’t even own any equipment. I’m also not a camper … only slept in a tent on like 3 occasions in my life. But I have to say that I am looking forward to this trip because on a scale of 1 to 100, my daughter’s excitement level is approximately 437,000 (which doesn’t even make sense). We just got back from the sporting goods store where we picked up fishing poles, lures, etc. and I had a great time teaching my daughter how to cast a line out in the backyard.

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Kate Borson casting
Kate was a natural

 

“… walk down the hill about 60 yards, look for the tree that looks like a one legged lumberjack, and turn left”.

 

The Honey Hole
not so secret map to the secret honey-hole

When I was in the sporting goods store, I was chatting up one of the clerks so that I could make sure I was getting the right sort of “grub lubers” and “xtreme” filament casting line. I told him where I was going and he shared with me that he had been going to this lake for over 20 years and had a honey hole … “the” honey hole. For those of you who don’t know what that means, it’s basically a really good fishing spot and people tend to keep them to themselves. He drew me a “secret map” that was almost impossible to decipher but I have attempted to recreate it here. The written directions are full of “look for the tree that looks like a one legged lumberjack, walk 20 steps and turn left”.

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Cabin Rental
the cabin

We are going to drive 3 1/2 hours up to Broken Bow lake in Southern Oklahoma this Friday after work where we have rented a cabin for the weekend. I was all for sleeping in a tent but thought we should take baby steps and just start with the fishing and hiking.

Taking trips like this are important although I don’t do them anywhere near often enough. I can’t help but think that periodically getting away to do anything other than what you normally do is really good for you, helps to recharge your batteries a bit and get your creative juices flowing (again, not gross).

Please look for the big announcement I have coming out tomorrow, try and have a great week.

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