He served for a while as a music critic, wrote poetry, worked on a novel (he never finished it), and for a while thought of abandoning music in favor of literature.
He showed talent at sketching, and for a while thought of scenic design as a possible career.
Actually it looks like he's been awake for a while, thinking dark thoughts, way over on his side of the bed.
"I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars".
Teresa pulled Libby into a hug while thoughts careened off one another.
"If you spend enough time reading someone else's thoughts," she muses, "after a while their thoughts begin to infect you.
Or perhaps a kaleidoscope that stays still while thoughts swirl around it.
But there is great drama in listening to Callas at Juilliard, so vulnerable and giving as she works with a new generation of singers, pushing aside for a while any thoughts about her own future.
After a while, your thoughts will drift off to the unused siding where the old tall weeds are, and the string of curving words will toot a mournful toot and pull ahead.
Zucchini-flower beignets: the prospect of blossom fritters brightened a recent muggy afternoon, and for a while obscured thoughts of other dishes that might appear at dinner that night, at La Promenade des Anglais, Alain Allegretti's homage to his home town of Nice.
