Light.Bulb.

He was about to throw it away! Burnt out backstage. Swirls of blue and white, and he was about to throw it away.

"I'll make it into something," I said, and he looked surprised. He passed it into my hand and I looked at it and thought, Now what?

A couple days later, working on a completely different project involving cutting flowers out of a foam-lined pot, inspiration struck!

It's now on my writing desk as a fun reminder (: