Being Creative

From an article in the NYT Sunday Mag on scientist Freeman Dyson, quoting his family:  All six Dysons describe eventful childhoods with people like Feynman coming by for meals.  Their father, meanwhile, was always preaching the virtues of boredom: “Being bored is the only time you are creative” was his thinking." 

I've been espousing this theory ever since we moved to the Vineyard, but haven't achieved that delightful and necessary state yet.

Another famous guy, Pascal, always stayed in bed until noon and claimed that was the secret of being creative. I haven't gotten there, either, yet.

Of course, these make marvelous excuses for my not having done anything worthwhile in a long time...