TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

From Daniel Zalewski’s New Yorker profile of Guillermo del Toro, who directed Pan’s Labyrinth:

We went back downstairs, and del Toro gently tapped a glass panel covering a mounted Malaysian stick bug; its rigid abdomen was nearly a foot long. He had bought the bug at Maxilla & Mandible, the famous Manhattan emporium, on a childhood visit to New York, and its form had steeped in his imagination. Two decades later, it inspired a key sequence in “Pan’s Labyrinth.” In her first glimpse of magic, Ofelia witnesses a stick bug on her bed change into a chattering pixie. “That’s why I collect images,” he said. “All this stuff feeds you back.”

That’s something we should all be doing. I sometimes come across things that resonate with me for some reason or other, and only occasionally will I through the effort of taking note of it or saving it for future reference. Often, though, whatever it is will pop back into my head while working on something else, but I won’t be able to precisely remember what it is.

I need to make a habit of collecting them. Those things resonate for a reason and they inspire something in us.