Pure Water

It is settled. I confess I’m addicted to what J. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis called “sub-creation,” i.e., artistic “world-making.” Lewis and Tolkien believed they found pleasure in creating their fictional worlds because they were emulating, in some small but significant way, the Designer who made THE world. This pleasure, sometimes also called inspiration, sometimes “flow,” satisfies, like a drink of pure water. It is the feeling of doing what one was made to do and in circling back to beginnings, signals completeness. “Pure Water” accents the worth of the walk up the mountain to get that drink.