Other people it's easy to picture as "old." In fact, there are people walking around out there who may be biologically in their 30's, but they are already old. There's a lot ot be said for that old truism "Age is a state of mind."
Memories are often a source of inspiration for me. Perhaps not directly... but I send up thinking about things that happened in a distant past, and then I move onto "I wonder where they/it is now?" and then research with Google follows... and along the way I end up getting distracted into various sidetracks and rabbit holes... and then a new idea builds from there. Or-- at least-- old ideas get turned over and looked at from new angles.
My dad was a corporate executive, and most of the time it struck me that he was pretty much a "thinking" (rather than "artistic") type of person... that said. he did find some creative expression in restoring old furniture and paintings. In some ways, I think he would have really liked to be a "Creative Slacker," but he grew up during a time-- and in a family-- where entertaining such thoughts were pretty much unthinkable.
