Today's question

I've been sorting - pitching or regrouping -- piles and piles of papers: Notes, reprints of journal articles, magazine special issues, drafts of papers on their way to conferences and publications, teaching exercises, and the like -- what a lot of trees! At the same time I've started drawing my mind map -- how does all the stuff I've done before, and all the literature I've explored over the last 20 years that's currently swirling around in my head settle into an interesting new pattern for inquiry?