In the key of ignition ...

What are your triggers? The things that make you perk up, pay attention, stop what you're doing? What do you willfully gaze upon, listen to, run your hand along, savor on your tongue, draw deeply through your nostrils? What thoughts, what words, what books, what collisions of circumstance make for fireworks in your brain? In short, what turns you on? Sex? OK sure, that's fairly universal, keep going... More obscure, more personal. Make your list. Pretend you have PET scan vision - as though you could view a color coded map of your brain lighting up like a rainbow in response to different stimuli. Know thyself!

(photo by Jason Lazarus)