Taking Flight...The Process

Every project begins, at some point, to take on a life of its own. Mine often stretch out over fairly long spans of time, with the occasional hiatus due to impending deadlines for other projects, technical or financial impediments to be solved, or simply the intrusion  of everyday life. At some point though, preoccupation morphs into all-consuming obsession. It will weave itself into all aspects of my life - a grocery list can send me spiralling off on a tangent. There was that  cringe-worthy time when I treated the cashier to a soliloquy  on the importance of bird song, much to the dismay of the people waiting behind me...