The Core of Brilliance

I have always thought that every person has a "core of brilliance" within them, a place where inspiration and the compulsion to express that inspiration meet. The analogy that I have most often used is that of a room in the center with hallways reaching out from it to the world. But every so far along the hallway there is a door. The doors could be defined as "writer's block," or "what will the world say." The doors might be specific people, like a wife or a lover in my case: "That's awful," or "that's a stupid idea." But once all the doors are open and there is a clear way to the world, the light flows from the core onto the page through the pen, through the keyboard.

These pages represent the radiant flashings of my "core of brilliance" when the doors were open and the audience was waiting.