copperbadge was just posting about that, how the creative energy for things like writing seems to come "from some separate source, one that's easy to drain, like we take energy from there first." (The post, if you're curious - mostly about ways to get energized for writing)

I wonder if there are other ways to create and do, like writing and karate, that you could access but that wouldn't require so much from you. Something inexpensive and with a variable reward threshold. I wish there was a way for you to take the Celtic fiddling lessons you mentioned a while ago, but then that is a major time commitment as well as money. How would you feel about fiber craft of some kind? Or something that's a different kind of physical, like yoga or (slow, steady) distance running? Depending on how your knee is holding up. I may be projecting here, but I have recently taken up running and although I am terribly slow (14 minute miles, no joke) I do find that the solitude of it is its own kind of recharging. No one can ask me to be responsible for anything else while I'm running, you know?