I am thankful for the inspiration I experience from being alive in this beautiful world.

Inspiration is treated like weather. It either shows up or it doesn't, and you wait. Which is why people spend years waiting.

In practice it behaves more like digestion. Things go in — a conversation, a book, an unfamiliar street, someone doing their craft well — and something comes out later, recombined, usually while you're doing something unrelated like washing up.

So a dry stretch is generally an input problem, not a talent problem.

If you've felt flat lately, feed it something. Go somewhere you haven't been, even four streets over. The showing-up part tends to follow the going-out part.